Poudre

Yves Saint Laurent’s organically pigmented bio-grain poudre tuxedo jacket and pant with an organically pigmented bio-silk satin gilet hardly sounds “crunchy”, and, of course, Michael Kors whipped up a recycled cashmere striped sweater dress and scarf for eco-fab girls on the go! ❋ Unknown (2008)

I admit that I spend $25 for a Lancome item called poudre something, which just means that it's powdery. ❋ PeaceBang (2006)

A day like this is called a poudre day; and woe to the man who tempts it unthinkingly, because the light makes the delicate mist of frost shine like silver. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

St. Nicholas, as the populace mockingly called the poudre de succession. ❋ William Kirby (1861)

The powder transported was called poudre de traite (transport); the people understood it as poudre de traître (traitor). ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)

A 'poudre' day, with its steely air and fatal frost, was an ill thing in the world; but these entangling blasts, these wild curtains of snow, were desolating even unto death. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Though winds were fierce, and travel full of peril, they kept their word, and passed along wide steppes of snow, until they entered passes of the mountains, and again into the plains; and at last one 'poudre' day, when frost was shaking like shreds of faintest silver through the air, Shon McGann's sight fled. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Though winds were fierce, and travel full of peril, they kept their word, and passed along wide steppes of snow, until they entered passes of the mountains, and again into the plains; and at last one 'poudre' day, when frost was shaking like shreds of faintest silver through the air, Shon ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

One example from Rembar I recall at this early hour is the origin of the English term “Piepowder Courts”, from the French pies poudre or “dusty feet”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Edwardian ladies also used papier poudre, which came in books of colored paper and were pressed against the cheeks or nose to remove shine, burnt matchsticks to darken eyelashes, and geranium and poppy petals to stain the lips. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They would have called it poudre bleu, and their presence is also still remembered in the names French Farm and French Drove. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

Prendre la CLÉ DES CHAMPS/prendre la poudre d'escampette ❋ Unknown (2008)

J'ai [pris] une ligne de [poudre] [tant]ôt. Je suis prêt à courser! ❋ Eugene Mclovin (2015)

"Wow, he took it up the [poudre]." aka, He did something [impossible] or [ridiculous]. ❋ Coloradofc (2009)