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polvo

dust

noun POHL-boh Rare

Origin: Latin pulvis 'dust, powder'

Also means

powder

Usage Note

Polvo means both fine dust and powder (e.g. polvo de talco). The plural polvos refers to face powder or dusting powders in cosmetics. The idiom hacer polvo means 'to exhaust completely' or 'to destroy': estoy hecho polvo ('I'm completely shattered'). Also used in quitar el polvo ('to dust the furniture').

Examples

"Había polvo en todos los muebles."

Natural Translation

There was dust on all the furniture.

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