Synonyms for dusters

Grammar : Noun

Spell : duhs-ter

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʌs tər

Top 10 synonyms for dusters

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Définition of dusters

Origin : 1570s, "dust brush for clothes," agent noun from dust (v.). Meaning "sifter" is from 1660s; that of "cloth worn to keep off dust" is from 1864.

As in spray : noun fine mist
As in dust storm : noun dust- or sand-carrying windstorm

Example sentences :

Dick would be content if she went about in raiment made of dusters and bath towels.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

She got up and took from the chest of drawers the first pile of dusters to be hemmed.
Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert

She got up and took from the chest of drawers the first of a pile of dusters to be hemmed.
Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert

But the King said 'No,' and she had better take a housemaid or two with brooms and dusters.
Extract from : « Oswald Bastable and Others » by Edith Nesbit

"Some of mother's dusters are very pretty, young woman," said her father.
Extract from : « Queensland Cousins » by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

There should be a closet or place on the second floor for brooms, dust-pans, and dusters.
Extract from : « Convenient Houses » by Louis Henry Gibson

She should not have wiped over any picture at all, not even with the cleanest of dusters.
Extract from : « A Likely Story » by William De Morgan

And as for baskets, we'll do them up in dusters or pillow-cases, or bath-towels.
Extract from : « The Strand Magazine » by Various

Where else should there be dirty cloths, and dusters, and dish-clouts?
Extract from : « The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) » by Fanny Burney

Dusters for hardwood floors are best made of strips of old flannel.
Extract from : « Hand-Loom Weaving » by Mattie Phipps Todd

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