dusting powder

American  

noun

1. a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.

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dusting-powder British  

noun

1. fine powder (such as talcum powder) used to absorb moisture, etc

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Etymology

Origin of dusting powder

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

She said state police badly damaged the fingerprints they found at the crime scene with smears and excess dusting powder.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2020

She shook some dusting powder into a plastic tub and the students held it up to the open cage.

From Washington Times • Sep. 24, 2016

Cologne and dusting powder for Magdalene called Lena; a compact for Corinthians; a five-pound box of chocolates for his mother.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Take two ounces of baking soda, mix with half an ounce of corn starch, and use as a dusting powder, after the parts have been thoroughly cleansed and dried.

From Making Good on Private Duty by Lounsbery, Harriet Camp

Injections of a dilute tincture of iodin were employed every second or third day for a month and the wound was kept covered with the antiseptic dusting powder referred to heretofore.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor