powder puff
a soft, feathery ball or pad, as of cotton or down, for applying powder to the skin.
Origin of powder puff
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Other definitions for powder-puff (2 of 2)
limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
inconsequential; trifling; lightweight: a powder-puff company with little financing and a weak sales effort.
Origin of powder-puff
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How to use powder puff in a sentence
Instead of NFL football, I was treated to an evening of powder-puff.
It was an ordinary little powder puff of pink silk and white down—very small, very dainty, if very commonplace.
Mrs. Vanderstein's jewels | Mrs. Charles BryceMy indispensable steel mirror with patent lanyard and powder puff for attachment to service revolver is in perfect working order.
A—you don't happen to have a small bag to hold a powder-puff, and so on, you know?
Oh, Mr. Shockley, between you and this Western sun, I shall soon need a new powder puff.
John Ermine of the Yellowstone | Frederic Remington
And away she and her sister skipped, to put on the brown toques, and to refresh themselves with a powder puff.
Mount Royal, Volume 2 of 3 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon
British Dictionary definitions for powder puff
a soft pad or ball of fluffy material used for applying cosmetic powder to the skin
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