tooth powder
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tooth powder
First recorded in 1535–45
Example Sentences
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She’d gone out to buy tooth powder, her husband said, and never came back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
In the first they sample decades old corn chips, century-old Civil War hardtack and then freshen up with 100-year-old tooth powder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2020
The makers of Calox tooth powder were offering customers a free guide to the city’s subway system, which was undergoing an expansion that, among public works projects, rivaled the recently-opened Panama Canal.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
Went to the apothecary for dietary supplements and saw a tall young man buying tooth powder.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2018
“Oh, great,” I mutter as I make a cup with my hands and run water into it, then rinse the tooth powder out of my mouth.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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