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Synonyms for dusters


Grammar : Noun
Spell : duhs-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʌs tər

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Définition of dusters

Origin :
  • 1570s, "dust brush for clothes," agent noun from dust (v.). Meaning "sifter" is from 1660s; that of "cloth worn to keep off dust" is from 1864.
  • As in spray : noun fine mist
  • As in dust storm : noun dust- or sand-carrying windstorm
Example sentences :
  • Dick would be content if she went about in raiment made of dusters and bath towels.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • She got up and took from the chest of drawers the first pile of dusters to be hemmed.
  • Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert
  • She got up and took from the chest of drawers the first of a pile of dusters to be hemmed.
  • Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert
  • But the King said 'No,' and she had better take a housemaid or two with brooms and dusters.
  • Extract from : « Oswald Bastable and Others » by Edith Nesbit
  • "Some of mother's dusters are very pretty, young woman," said her father.
  • Extract from : « Queensland Cousins » by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
  • There should be a closet or place on the second floor for brooms, dust-pans, and dusters.
  • Extract from : « Convenient Houses » by Louis Henry Gibson
  • She should not have wiped over any picture at all, not even with the cleanest of dusters.
  • Extract from : « A Likely Story » by William De Morgan
  • And as for baskets, we'll do them up in dusters or pillow-cases, or bath-towels.
  • Extract from : « The Strand Magazine » by Various
  • Where else should there be dirty cloths, and dusters, and dish-clouts?
  • Extract from : « The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) » by Fanny Burney
  • Dusters for hardwood floors are best made of strips of old flannel.
  • Extract from : « Hand-Loom Weaving » by Mattie Phipps Todd
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