Meaning of Dusting | Babel Free

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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