Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A trade-name of various mixtures of pulverized dry soap with soda crystals, starch, oatmeal, bran, or other materials also in the powdered state.

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Examples

  • We were sitting at the kitchen table, and he'd just fanned out a group of photographs and narrated the story of each one: I saw the Zócalo, the soap-powder beaches of Puerto Escondido, the catacombs beneath some ancient church.

    monday quickies: words words words jlundberg 2005

  • This isn't a brand of soap-powder we're discussing.

    Marvel & NCSoft Update 2005

  • She smiled cheerfully at him, found brush, pan, broom, pail, and cloths, and with some hot water and soap-powder went back to the store.

    Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

  • "Soap" the water before placing the dishes in the pan; use soap-powder, a soap-holder, or a bar of soap.

    School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

  • But, believe me, my dear girl, for every ardent radical who says the whole thing is rotten there's ten clever advertising-men who think it's virtue to sell new brands of soap-powder that are no better than the old brands, and a hundred old codgers who are so broken into the office system that they think they are perfectly happy -- don't know how much fun in life they miss.

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • As is well known to people who look out for it on bus tickets and in the involutions on soap-powder packets, the Number is 666.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • "I'm going to give you a little box of my nice sweet-smelling soap-powder that I use to shampoo my hair.

    A Voice in the Wilderness Grace Livingston Hill 1906

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