10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PULVIL»
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The Century dictionary: an encyclopedic lexicon of the ...
A receptacle for perfumed powder and other articles of the toilet, as combs, etc.
pulviliot, Same as pulvil. It was easy for the porter in Farquhar to pass for Beau
Clincher, by borrowing his lace and his pulvilio. llacaulay, Petrarch. pulvillar ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
To sprinkle with pulvil or a perfumed powder. Have you pulvUTd the Coachman
and Postilion, that they may not stink of the Stable? Congreve, Way of the World,
It. 1. pulvil-caaet (pul'vil-kas), ». A receptacle for perfumed powder and other ...
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
Pulvil, pul′vil,n.a bag of perfumed powder.—Also Pulvil ′io. [It. polviglio—L.
pulvillus, a little cushion—pulvinus, a cushion.] Pulvillar, pul′vilär, adj. cushion
or padlike.—adj.Pulvil ′liform, likea pulvillus.—n.Pulvil′lus, a footpad between
the ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
[L pulvis, pulveris powder] pulvil pul' vil. (obs or hist) n perfumed powder;
extended to snuff and other powders. — Also pulvil io, puhrill'io (pi pulvil ios,
pulvlll iosl and pulville . — vt pulvil to powder or scent with pulvil: — prp pul villing
; pat and ...
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
Qay, The Fan, L 129. pulvilt (pul'vil), v. t. [< pulvil, n.] To sprinkle with pulvil or a
perfumed powder. Have yon pulviU'd the Coachman and Postilion, that they may
not stink of the Stable? Congreve, Way of the World, It. 1. pulvil-caset (pul'vil-kas),
...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
< pulvil, n .] To sprinkle with pulvil or a perfumed powder. Have you puleill'd the
Coachman and Postilion, that they may not Blink of the Stable? Congreve, Way of
the World, iv. 1. pulvil-caset (pul'vil-kas), n. A receptacle for perfumed powder and
...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Imperial dictionary, on the basis of Webster's English ...
Pulvil (puTvil), n. [See Pulvillo.) A sweet- scented powder formerly used. The
toilette, nursery of charms Completely furnished with bright b<Mutv's arms. The
patch, the powder-box, pulvil, perfumes. Gay. Pulvil (pul'vilV v.t. To sprinkle with
pulvil ...
John Ogilvie, Charles Annandale, 1883
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
1. pulvil-caset (pul'vil-kas), n. A receptacle for perfumed powder and other articles
of the toilet, as combs, etc. pulviliot, »□ Same as pulvil. It was easy for the porter
in Farquhar to pass for Beau Clincher, by borrowing his lace and his pulvuio.
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
Congrm, Way of the World, iv. 1. pulvil-casel (pul'vil-kas), n. A receptacle for
erfumed powder and other articles of the toioi, as combs, etc. pulviljof, 21. Same
as pulvil. It was easy for the porter in F uhar to pass for Beau Clincher, by
borrowing ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1904
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
Have you pulvil/edthe coachman and postilion, that they may not stink of the
stable? Congreve's Way of the World. PUMEX, the Pumice-stone, a substance
frequently thrown -out of volcanoes, though there are many which never throw it
out.
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An Ephemeral History of Perfume in Early Modern England …
... expired, fetored, halited, resented, and smeeked" or were described as "breathful, embathed, endulced, gracious, halited, incensial, odorant, pulvil, redolent, ... «Mimi Froufrou, Sep 11»
