powdering

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Beyond serving customers at the counter, I also worked in the back, finishing donuts through tasks like jelly filling, frosting and powdering.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

“The last thing they need is legislation to endanger them even more,” Electronika said, powdering her cheekbones.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2022

The final stages included curling, dying, powdering, and pomades.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021

Native peoples had been growing it for medicinal and ritual purposes for centuries before European contact, smoking it in pipes or powdering it to use as snuff.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

A light powdering of snow covered the boar’s humped black back.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin