Pulverulent
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pulverulent
- Consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.
- 1900, H._G._Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, ch. 15,The first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand.
- 2004, Umberto Eco (Geoffrey Brock. trans.), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, ISBN 9780156030434, p. 120,If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.