powder burns
powder burns is the plural of powder burn.
Meaning of powder burn
Noun
powder burn (plural powder burns)
- A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm.
- To anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart. A jiu jitsu trick and...1944 April 17, “Mexico: At the Palacio Nacional”, in Time, retrieved 13 May 2014
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- Powder burns is the plural of powder burn.
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