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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Italian polviglio, from Latin pulvis ("dust, powder")
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pulvil.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
hernesheir commented on the word pulvil
Scented wig powder. Bay rum for me please.
January 6, 2013