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/pʌlˈvɛɹjələnt/ · adjective
Consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty..
2004, Umberto Eco (Geoffrey Brock. trans.), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, →ISBN, p. 120, If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.
The first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand.
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Pulverulent means Consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty..
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2004, Umberto Eco (Geoffrey Brock. trans.), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, →ISBN, p. 120, If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.
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