Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pulvil .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of perfume in the form of a powder, formerly much used, -- often in little bags.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A kind of
perfume in the form of apowder , often kept in a smallbag .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of
Burlesques 2006
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The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of
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_ Ha! ha! nay there she abused you, 'tis plain; for you know what Manly said: the sweetness of your pulvillio she might mean; but for your breath! ha! ha! ha!
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows -- the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), -- the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of London's Wit and
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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