powdery

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English

Etymology

powder +‎ -y

Pronunciation

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Adjective

powdery (comparative more powdery, superlative most powdery)

  1. Of or pertaining to powder.
    • 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, ch. 21,
      We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.

Translations

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