v. [f. BE- 1 + POWDER v.] trans. To powder over.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 100. Thee chase is ensued with passadge dustye bepowdred.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, 243. Bepowdering their wigs,—-bepeppering their noses.
1879. G. Macdonald, P. Faber, I. xvii. 227. The ashes of life’s volcano are falling; they bepowder my hair.
Hence Bepowdered ppl. a.
1742. Fielding, Lucy in Town, Wks. 1784, III. 439. And is this bepowder’d, becurl’d, behoop’d madwoman my daughter?
1829. Southey, Epist. A. Cunningham. Armorial bearings and bepowdered pates!
