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
Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
Other versions are coated in marzipan, or dusted in powder sugar.
This powder can be shipped anywhere and then reconstituted—just add water, as if it were instant coffee.
So the new inhaled powder measles vaccine may in a few years turn out to be an easier way to protect kids from measles.
They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
The law went into operation in England imposing a tax on wearing hair powder.
The girl began to hum, as she powdered her nose with a white glove, lying in a powder box.
Steam machinery would accomplish more than nine-tenths of all the work, besides saving the expense of all the powder.
When first seen it is said to have had a pasty consistency, but on exposure to the air it dried and crumbled into powder.
The poorest people reduce it to powder by manual labour, in the same way as they grind corn preparatory to baking it into cakes.
British Dictionary definitions for dusting powder
noun
fine powder (such as talcum powder) used to absorb moisture, etc
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