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powdery
has definitions from the field of color
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[ adjective ] consisting of fine particles
Synonyms Examples "powdered cellulose" "powdery snow" "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" Used in print (Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)Off_and_on , all day , someone would be wiping at the powdery gray dust that settled over everything . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] consisting of fine particles
Examples "powdered cellulose" "powdery snow" "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (color) as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder
Examples "a powdery blue" Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)She glanced at the man nodding beside her , a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks , with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen , reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August - yes , with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June , only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt_Shafer would not leave her . Related terms |
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