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Fashion icon Anna Wintour, who recently stepped back from her role as Vogue editor-in-chief, added further star-dust in a near-full capacity crowd.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2025

Why not boldly urge that Plato might have traced back his lineage to an amœba,—yea, to star-dust and curdling ether?

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

And yet one has faith in the imperishability of such a star-dust track.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion, “the portentous year of Mizar and Alcor,” must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

Mr. Owen Roughwood gave you a sense of his belief in the efficacy of star-dust.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir