powder puff
See also: powderpuff
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editpowder puff (plural powder puffs)
- A ball or pad of soft material used for the application of cosmetic powder to the face.
- 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273:
- 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 Egypt she would be buried with those things.”
- 1925, Cosmopolitan, volume 78, page 194:
- Both the lipstick and the rouge are waterproof and frictionproof. They won't come off on your handkerchief or powder puff.
- Any of certain species of genus Calliandra.
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editball or pad of soft material used to apply powder
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