Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as diamond-powder.

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Examples

  • He was sick with nausea from his exertions, and at times it seemed that blindness smote him, for he could not see, his eyes vexed with spots and points of light that were as excruciating as diamond-dust, his heart pounding up in his throat and suffocating him.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • Let Dad make a last-minute trip to Zales, or your local equivalent in jewelry thoughtlessness/tackiness, and spend no more than $149 after rebate on a totally unique pair of diamond studs, or maybe, if he's feeling really happy about that last casserole, the necklace with the asymmetrical heart, in diamond-dust, dangling from the end of a 14K 'gold' chain!

    Jilly Gagnon: QUIZ: What to get Mom? Just think of...YOU! 2009

  • She was still pondering the question when the door directly in front of her swung open, affording the doctor a glimpse of swirling, diamond-dust snow.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • She was still pondering the question when the door directly in front of her swung open, affording the doctor a glimpse of swirling, diamond-dust snow.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • She was still pondering the question when the door directly in front of her swung open, affording the doctor a glimpse of swirling, diamond-dust snow.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • She was still pondering the question when the door directly in front of her swung open, affording the doctor a glimpse of swirling, diamond-dust snow.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • She was still pondering the question when the door directly in front of her swung open, affording the doctor a glimpse of swirling, diamond-dust snow.

    Death in Winter Michael Jan Friedman 2005

  • I suppose it may be as delicate work to drill a jewel with a hair of steel, armed with paste of diamond-dust, as to write "Our Father" under a microscope; but when the jewel has to be drilled with relation to the reception of a revolving metallic pivot, the process becomes very much nicer.

    Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

  • A long, low house, clothed in creeper, it stood just below the hill's brow, sheltered to the rear by a great belt of woods, and overlooking a sea which sparkled in the sunlight as though strewn with diamond-dust.

    The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

  • It is hard to realize that a metal can be so hard that it requires forty years on a diamond-dust abrasive machine to hone

    The Skylark of Space Lee Hawkins Garby 1922

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