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  • noun Plural form of dustsheet.

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Examples

  • It is a very classic looking attic, swathed in mysterious dustsheets and spiders webs.

    Home Improvements and the C-word. Spinningfishwife 2008

  • It is a very classic looking attic, swathed in mysterious dustsheets and spiders webs.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Spinningfishwife 2008

  • The east-wing guestrooms had to be opened and aired, the dustsheets removed and the furniture polished.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • The east-wing guestrooms had to be opened and aired, the dustsheets removed and the furniture polished.

    The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

  • The empty spots where some valued antique had been sold off to meet a particularly recalcitrant gambling debt, the mold on the dustsheets covering the grand ballroom and the day when the gas leak finally ended the whole thing.

    I Met John Scalvi! « Whatever 2008

  • They were draped in dustsheets, ghosts of the creatures that had lived there.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • They were draped in dustsheets, ghosts of the creatures that had lived there.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • I've got a handyman coming on Tuesday morning to put in a loft hatch and apparently the dust from the plaster will go everywhere; so I had to pile everything in my bedroom on top of my bed and swathe it in dustsheets.

    Too-tight sleeping bag causes shoulder injury shock jinty 2004

  • Murph dived for the heap of dustsheets, Lexy at his elbow.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • There were also dustsheets hung on the walls, partly covering the wooden lattice frames the removers tied tall objects to.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

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