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powdery

English

Etymology

powder +? -y

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?pa?d??i/

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.

Related terms

  • powderiness
  • powderily

Translations

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powdered

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?pa?d?d/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pa?d?d/
  • Hyphenation: pow?dered

Adjective

powdered (comparative more powdered, superlative most powdered)

  1. which has been made into a powder
    powdered milk
  2. which has been covered with powder (typically referring to makeup)
    powdered ladies
    powdered wig
  3. (obsolete) Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned.
    Powdered beef, pickled meats — Harvey.

Translations

Verb

powdered

  1. simple past tense and past participle of powder

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