Polverine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Polverine is a noun meaning (uncountable) Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, used in the manufacture of fine glass.
Meaning
(uncountable) Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, used in the manufacture of fine glass.
More Meanings
- (countable) A tiny biting insect found in South America.
Example Sentences
But all were more tolerable than those polverines.
Mosquitoes and polverines, little midges so small as to be scarcely visible, rose in a cloud from the water and settled on our hands and faces.
The polverines, however, were so small and numerous that even though we massacred fifty with a slap it seemed to make no difference to the hazy black cloud which hung around our heads.
Word Forms
- polverines
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include peperino, poulder, putty, rabat, pitchstone, moil.
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