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
He sold tooth powder door to door and delivered wine for a time.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
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
Went to the apothecary for dietary supplements and saw a tall young man buying tooth powder.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2018
Rani doesn't have tooth powder, but she shows me how to brush my teeth with a fresh twig from a neem tree.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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