Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pulvil .
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Examples
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They made cakes of damask rose-leaves and pulvilio, civit, and musk, of
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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"Gud, my lord, it is vastly old-fashioned in your lordship to taste Shakespeare!" protested Sir Ralph Masaroon, shaking a cloud of pulvilio out of his cataract of curls.
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It was easy for the porter in Farquhar to pass for Beau Clincher, by borrowing his lace and his pulvilio.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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a considerable sprinkling of persons of quality, who perfumed the not too agreeable atmosphere with pulvilio and Florentine iris powder, and the rustle of whose silks and brocades was audible all over the Hall.
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