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Powdery   /pˈaʊdəri/   Listen
adjective
Powdery  adj.  
1.
Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
2.
Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
3.
Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Powdery" Quotes from Famous Books



... grin; "the truth is, I clean forgot my tobacco. I knowed you wasn't a chawin' man, but yore uncle is, an' he mought have left a piece of a plug lyin' round. My old woman tried to git me to use her snuff as a make-shift, but lawsy me! the blamed powdery truck jest washes down my throat like leaves in a mill-race. I never could see how women kin set an' rub an' rub the'r gums with it like they do. I reckon it's ...
— Westerfelt • Will N. Harben
... round the corner of the hotel to reach Main Street he saw Luke Tweezy single-footing into town from the south. The powdery dust of the trail filled in and overlaid the lines and creases of Luke Tweezy's foxy-nosed and leathery visage. Layers of dust almost completely concealed the original colour of the caked and matted hide of Luke Tweezy's well-conditioned ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... footprints one by one, Zigzaggedly, Where I had run; Where shrill and powdery A robin sat ...
— Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes - Volume I. • Walter de la Mare
... and it is perfectly assimilated to the calcareous matrix. 2. Here is a mass of indurated clay; and a gentle blow has exposed part of two Ammonites, smaller than the former, but their shells are white and powdery like chalk. 3. Another fragment is laid open; and there, quite unmistakably, lie the umbo and greater portion of the Plagiostoma concentricum. 4. Another fragment of a granular gritty structure presents a considerable portion of the interior of one of the shells of a Pecten, but ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar. This fine comparison has reference to Fred Vincy, who on that evening at Lowick Parsonage heard a lively discussion among the ladies on the news which their old servant had got from ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot


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