(n.) One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.
(n.) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
(n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
(n.) A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(2) As a visual stimulus, a feather duster moving for 2 min in front of the cats eyes was used.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A duster coat from Monki.
(4) Well, it appears that acting like a cock has finally rendered Morgan the feather duster.
(5) The patient was a crop duster with numerous episodes of acute organophosphate intoxication and chronic organophosphate exposure.
(6) Last year, DKNY launched a Ramadan collection – a full range, featuring duster coats, leather jackets and silk jogging bottoms – while, next month, Armani will release a box of Ramadan chocolates.
(7) Look at him, dumbly stuffing six on to each hand like a useless Swiss knuckle-duster.
(8) The visual stimulus was a feather duster which was moved for 4-5 min in front of the cats eyes.
(9) Was there ever any danger that it would quit a cosy jurisdiction with feather-duster regulation and prosecutions as rare as hen’s teeth?
(10) It reminded me of the field in North by Northwest, where Cary Grant is strafed by a crop duster.
(11) You will need: Wax filler stick Coloured wood stain White spirit Beeswax Duster or soft cloth Fine brush 1) If you have a fairly deep scratch on a flat surface such as a table top, wax works best.
(12) Apply beeswax lightly to the scratch and the surrounding area and buff with a duster.
(13) A man walks down the street wearing a dark fedora at a jaunty angle and chatting into a mobile phone; young men lounge by a wall, like young men everywhere, all high-fives and exaggerated gestures, except that one carries an AK-47; children stand ranged like bottles on a crumbling wall as a kite soars above; donkeys with pretty pink flowers fastened to the ropes around their noses pull carts; minibuses sporting feather dusters in their bonnets groan under the weight of too many passengers and too many bags; a boy in a blue T-shirt raises two fingers to his head in salute and smiles.
(14) Colombia says rise in coca cultivation shows why it was right to stop spraying Read more The defense minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said instead of dumping glyphosate from American-piloted crop dusters , as Colombia did for two decades, the herbicide will now be applied manually by eradication crews on the ground.
(15) "O ne day you're the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster" reads Piers Morgan's bio on Twitter .
(16) But others insist the EPBC Act, introduced by John Howard’s government, is robust legislation that can either be a heavy stick or a feather duster, depending on its application.
(17) But we don't get the chance because he's off again, brushing aside the camera crew and actioning change with a stately swipe of his feather duster ("Eurk … don't like this table … nyarrph").
(18) Permethrin, a pyrethroid insecticide, applied on two plots with a pressurized hand-held duster at mean rates of 2.3 and 4.0 g per burrow, was used to determine control levels for Oropsylla hirsuta fleas, a vector of bubonic plague, in black-tail prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, burrows in northern Colorado during the summer of 1988.
(19) He remembers as a child when crop dusters repeatedly used herbicide to destroy his father’s crops near the town of Tibú – and how his father would replant them.
(20) Long tunics, thin long duster coats and dresses over trousers are all the rage in bargain high-street shops such as New Look and Monki.
Smock
Definition:
(n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
(n.) A blouse; a smoock frock.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
(v. t.) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Fry, a 27-year-old occupier from Ohio and the very last protester to turn himself in after intense FBI negotiations, appeared in federal court in Portland on Friday, wearing a green anti-suicide smock.
(2) After apparent outside pressure on the brig due to my mistreatment, I was given a suicide prevention article of clothing called a "smock" by the guards.
(3) There were MPs (Hilary Benn and family), a smattering of celebs, a lot of public sector workers, Unison stewards in smart purple smocks.
(4) Although I am still required to strip naked in my cell at night, I am now given the "smock" to wear.
(5) Glastonbury has a record of incubating trends – Hunter wellingtons, the "backstage Barbour" jacket, smocked dresses and floral crowns all developed there.
(6) And secondly, his appearance is all the answer I need: a slight, young-looking, 42-year-old with thick, black-rimmed glasses, wavy vertical quiff and a blue-grey smock shirt that could be part of a uniform on, say, an intergalactic space vessel.
(7) But if the meaning was a little vague, the clothes were pretty, and played the good-guys in this dystopian vision, with butter-wouldn’t-melt artist-smock shapes in dreamy chambray and broderie anglaise.
(8) The nearby village where Tolstoy tried to educate peasant children in the 1860s still exists – now, as then, something of a dump; yet so evocative is the atmosphere that it wouldn't be surprising if Tolstoy himself burst from the lime trees wearing his peasant smock.
(9) I'd always played girls, so acting 11 was no particular challenge; the Edwardian smocks usefully concealed any bust line.
(10) Donated clothes, food, medicines and other essentials were piled high on tables in a room the size of a basketball court on Monday night as volunteers in brightly coloured smocks and t-shirts bustled, arranging goods and tending to the migrants.
(11) Bit off, I think, for you to bring smocks and overalls into the equation, as if corporate suits were only another type of necessary professional uniform.
(12) It was close to 1am by the time Madonna finally came trundling on to Melbourne’s Forum stage on Thursday, dressed in a bright yellow clown smock, riding a tiny tricycle and waving to a sea of 1,500 competition winners.
(13) I recommend a good dose of Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience , possibly an act of random kindness or two, and certainly a nice chintz smock.
(14) However, the brig now orders me to wear the "smock" at night.
(15) Bearded young men grew their hair long, wore floral chintz smocks, and declared themselves "the Apostles of the Newness".
(16) Photograph: Felix Clay Seated in a bare interview room last month, wearing a blue smock and plucking at a wristband stamped with his detention number and ordained destination – Mexico – Mendoza was sombre, soft-spoken and weakened from two weeks of fasting.
(17) An imam, donning a plastic smock over his white robe, prepared to wash them while another man began cutting cotton shrouds for the day's burials.
(18) Her hair is long and grey, and she's wearing a loose-fitting linen smock.
(19) The Pentagon has now said that it allows Bradley Manning to wear a garment at night, which his lawyer described as a smock.
(20) Under the terms of his detention, he is kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, checked every five minutes under a so-called "prevention of injury order" and stripped naked at night apart from a smock.