Meaning of polverine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, used in the manufacture of fine glass.
   uncountable
2. A tiny biting insect found in South America.
   countable

Examples

“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.”

“But all were more tolerable than those polverines.”

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