dusting powder

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noun

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

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Origin of dusting powder

First recorded in 1905–10

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How to use dusting powder in a sentence

This is painted over the parts and allowed to dry, and a mild dusting powder sprinkled over.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon
The same applications or a dusting powder of calomel may also be used on moist papules.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Iodol may also be applied to ulcers as a dusting-powder, usually mixed with one to several parts of zinc oxide or boric acid.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon
The entire wound is then covered with a dusting powder composed of zinc oxide, boric acid, exsiccated alum, phenol and camphor.
Lameness of the Horse|John Victor Lacroix

He left the colt in the pasture and all the care it received was the regular application of a proprietary dusting powder.
Lameness of the Horse|John Victor Lacroix

British Dictionary definitions for dusting powder

dusting-powder

noun

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

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