English Explanatory Dictionary

polverine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, used in the manufacture of fine glass.
  2. A tiny biting insect found in South America.

Word forms

polverine polverines

Etymology

From Italian polverino, from Latin pulvis (“dust”). Doublet of pulvinus.

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