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/dˈəsti mˈɪlər/ Listen

adjective

dusty adj. (compar. dustier; superl. dustiest)

Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; a dusty attic; also, reducing to dust. "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death."

Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white.

Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

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Etymology of 'Dusty miller'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dusty miller" Quotes from Famous Books

... Dusty Miller sliced off a wedge of bread with the knife edge against his thumb, popped it in his mouth, and followed it with ...

— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

... Hawkins to gather wild columbine on the high cliff above the river, known as Lover's Leap. When winter came these two sometimes went to Bear Creek, skating; or together they attended parties, where the old-fashioned games "Ring-around-Rosy" and "Dusty Miller" were the ...

— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

... fisherwives, followed by the factor. He had found a place on the eastern side of the village, where, jumping a low earth wail, he got into a little back yard, and was trampling over its few stocks of kail, and its one dusty miller and double daisy, when the woman to whose cottage it belonged caught sight of him through the window, and running out fell to abusing him in no measured language. He rode at her in his rage, and she fled shrieking into ...

— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald