powdery
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈpaʊdəɹi/
powdery
- Of or pertaining to powder.
- 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w 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.
- 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w ch. 21,]
- powderiness
- powderily
- French: poudreux
- Russian: порошкообра́зный
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