Dusting

Definitions

1. A light snowfall.
   countable
2. A light covering of something.
   countable
3. The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.
   countable, uncountable
4. A beating.
   colloquial, countable
5. A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dustbathing.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The rooves are covered with a dusting of snow⟳.”

“Cover⟳ the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.”

“Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting.”

“Strict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take⟳ place⟳, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.”

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