pulverous

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Many booths stood unlet, and in others the pulverous ladies and gentlemen, their proprietors, were in the enjoyment of a leisure which would have been elegant if it had not been forced.

From Suburban Sketches by Howells, William Dean

While the two talked in the same pulverous fashion, the words came very differently from the two mouths.

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

Cool it is, and of a pulverous smell, as a sacred place should be; a blessed benching goes round the wall, and you sit down and take unlimited comfort in the frescos.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various

This cannon was drawn along the road by a score of men, whose bare feet, beating the dust, sent up a pulverous cloud that blew back into the faces of those behind like smoke.

From Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution by Sage, William

Cool it is, and of a pulverous smell, as a sacred place should be; a blessed benching goes round the walls, and you sit down and take unlimited comfort in the frescos.

From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean