The word "plumes" is correct in written English.
It is typically used to describe a feather-like shape or a rising column of smoke or vapor.
Example: "The plumes of smoke rose high into the sky after the fire was extinguished."
Alternatives: "Columns" or "Streams".
In the plume moths (family Pterophoridae) the wings are deeply cleft into two or three narrow plumes, and in the many-plumed moths (family Alucitidae) each wing is cleft into six plumes.
It's not all about the clouds and plumes; it's about the flavour and the nicotine delivery".
But now there are news organisations channelling us nothing but smoke plumes from around the world, 24/7, and we react by getting overly scared – of Isis, of Ebola, of everything.
When we see new attacks, we can't get close... There's plumes of smoke rising everyday from Damascus now, the big question is, what is happening on the ground?
From 1951 to 1962 the AEC detonated more than 100 bombs, sending huge pinkish plumes of radioactive dust across the stony valleys and canyons of southern Utah and northern Arizona.
In common with the majority of his neighbours, Terry still didn't accept there was a threat when he saw two plumes in the distant north at around 5.30pm.
From the mood-lit plumes of cigarette smoke emerges our server - a woman - wearing one of those "open," untied, unbuttoned robes Hadi was talking about, hair flowing out from underneath a rag that looks like it could slide off her head at any moment.
He added that six vehicles in a warehouse were set alight during the confrontation, which would account for the plumes of black smoke locals from nearby areas had earlier told reporters they had seen.
On higher ground some parts remain oddly untouched, save for massive oaks lying in the road and huge plumes of smoke from various distant fires.
Transport patterns can be followed, infrastructure monitored, the planting of fields, plumes from smokestacks and ships in ports can all be observed.
On one side of a barbed-wire fence, beneath plumes of smoke from air strikes and amid the rattle of gunfire, the bearded fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) closed their grip on Kobane, a Kurdish town on Syria's northern border.
