dusting

1. (countable)A light snowfall.

   The rooves are covered with a dusting of snow.

2. (countable)A light covering of something.

   Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.

   Überpuderung, Puderschicht

3. (countable, uncountable)The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.

   Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting.

   Staubwischen, Entstauben, Staubentfernung

4. (colloquial, countable)A beating.

5. (countable, uncountable)A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dustbathing.

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