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Powdery   /pˈaʊdəri/   Listen
adjective
Powdery  adj.  
1.
Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
2.
Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
3.
Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow."






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"Powdery" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the mountain roe; With many a wanton stroke Her feet disperse the powdery snow, ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole

... rushes past us! Ah! with that let me go To the clear, waning hill-side, Unspotted by snow, There to watch, o'er the sunk vale, The frore mountain-wall, Where the niched snow-bed sprays down Its powdery fall. There its dusky blue clusters The aconite spreads; There the pines slope, the cloud-strips Hung soft in their heads. No life but, at moments, The mountain-bee's hum. —I come, O ye mountains! Ye ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... broad-backed hills, Hear the uproar of their joy; We will mark the leaps and gleams Of the new-delivered streams, And the murmuring rivers of sap Mount in the pipes of the trees, Giddy with day, to the topmost spire, Which for a spike of tender green Bartered its powdery cap; And the colors of joy in the bird, And the love in its carol heard, Frog and lizard in holiday coats, And turtle brave in his golden spots; While cheerful cries of crag and plain Reply to the thunder of ...
— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... of San Diego is in the midst of rice-fields. It is approached by a narrow path, powdery on sunny days, navigable on rainy. A wooden gate and a wall half stone, half bamboo stalks, succeed in keeping out men, but not the curate's goats, nor the pigs of his neighbors. In the middle of the enclosure is a stone pedestal ...
— An Eagle Flight - A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... catch the sparkle of the sand, and there away in the distance a powdery whirl which was all she could see of Cinders. He was evidently digging for dear life, and ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell


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