dust ruffle
尘土飞扬,尘褶,尘封的褶皱,尘埃围巾
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- : a ruffle attached to the inside hem of a full-length petticoat or skirt to protect the bottom edge of the garment against dirt and wear, popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- : a wide ruffle encircling the bottom perimeter of a bed and reaching to the floor, used decoratively or as protection against dust.
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Estee Lauder has not crumbled to dust because the perfect brown face of Joan Smalls represents it.
Moreover, trucks, dust, and boomtown stress are the effects of any large-scale industrial activity.
That is a lot of air pollution, noise, and yet more kicking up of dust.
“I have full faith that this will happen,” Williams says, prepping her fairy dust for a flurry of happy thoughts.
If we enter with hammer in hand, we may leave with merely dust and rubble on our faces.
In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
Never mind the dust; I've turned it on to make believe we're going tremendously fast.
He laid it upon the floor, and took out a plaster mask, and brushing and blowing off the saw-dust, held it up.
When the smoke and dust cleared away nothing stirred on the whole of that piece of ground.