Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little bag of perfumed powder; a sachet.
  • To sprinkle with pulvil or a perfumed powder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A sweet-scented powder; pulvillio.
  • transitive verb obsolete To apply pulvil to.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete scented wig powder

Etymologies

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From Italian polviglio, from Latin pulvis ("dust, powder")

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  • Scented wig powder. Bay rum for me please.

    January 6, 2013