First recorded in 1905–10
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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
Powdered zinc oxide, or starch as a dusting powder.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
A dusting powder composed of starch two parts, and boracic acid one part, may be dusted on after a cleansing with oil.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
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