Powdering Definition

Powdering Sentence Examples

• The old prince always dressed in old-fashioned style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew entered his father's dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which he talked to Pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to Tikhon.

• We all sat around fluffing our dresses and powdering our noses.

• Wigs were increasingly going out of fashion, as was hair powdering.