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Powder-puff   /pˈaʊdər-pəf/   Listen
Powder-puff

adjective
1.
Used of competitive activities in which only women take part.  "A powder-puff football game"





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"Powder-puff" Quotes from Famous Books



... woman, compelled to make part of her toilet in a railway waiting-room under the eyes of half a score of enemies, that is to say, of ten other women, arranges her tresses, purchased or natural, uses powder-puff and hare's foot if she choose, and turns away from the mirror armed for conquest; but an American similarly situated, forgets half her hair-pins, does not dare to wash her face carefully lest some one should sniff condemnation of her fussiness, and ...
— In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda • Theo. Stephenson Browne
... show, as Ibsen shows, and with an equal lack of malice prepense, various detestable features which the mask of good manners had concealed. Each artist would be called a caricaturist because his instinctive penetration had taken him into regions where the powder-puff and the rouge-pot lose ...
— Henrik Ibsen • Edmund Gosse
... cared. Yes, whether it was for chocolate creams, hot baths, the shape of her face in the looking-glass, Florinda could no more pretend a feeling than swallow whisky. Incontinent was her rejection. Great men are truthful, and these little prostitutes, staring in the fire, taking out a powder-puff, decorating lips at an inch of looking-glass, have (so Jacob thought) ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... the darkened room. The Princess gazed at herself in the mirror, and reaching out again took a small powder-puff from its case and gently dabbed her face. Then she laid both mirror and powder-puff ...
— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim


Words linked to "Powder-puff" :   feminine


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