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powder puffs

powder puffs is the plural of powder puff.

Meaning of powder puff

Noun

powder puff (plural powder puffs)

  1. A ball or pad of soft material used for the application of cosmetic powder to the face.
    • The little bag, with its shiny, silvery jaws open, lay on her lap. He could see her powder-puff, her rouge stick, a bundle of letters, a phial of tiny black pills like seeds, a broken cigarette, a mirror, white ivory tablets with lists on them that had been heavily scored through. He thought: “In...1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273
  2. Any of certain species of genus Calliandra.

Questions about powder puffs

What is powder puffs the plural of?
Powder puffs is the plural of powder puff.

Words near powder puffs in the dictionary

  1. powder of sympathy
  2. powder one's nose
  3. powder pink
  4. powder pinks
  5. powder puff
  6. powder puffs
  7. Powder River
  8. Powder River County
  9. powder room
  10. powder rooms
  11. powder snow

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