From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Textures, soundspowderypow‧der‧y /ˈpaʊdəri/ adjective1CSlike powder or easily broken into powderpowdery snow2DCcovered with powderExamples from the Corpuspowdery• The snow was dry and powdery.• The real thing is granular, not powdery.• This was the dry season, and the ground was red and powdery.• Squeezing her fist together she crumbled it into finepowderydust.• A smile of lath opened amid powderyfallout.• Before we left, the slopes were covered with the powdery snow that skiersdream about.• The marble gives it a peculiar, powderytaste.• Old powderytenements fell to the ground.• The earth in the flowerbed in front of the window was grey and powdery, the result of several weeks of drought.