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DUSTING

Traducere în limba română

dusting substantiv

1. ştergerea prafului.

2. praf antiseptic (pentru răni).

3. (sl.) bătaie, mamă de bătaie, tăvăleală;

to give a dusting a bate zdravăn, a zvânta / a snopi în bătaie, a burduşi.

4. (mar. sl.) legănatul vasului pe vreme de furtună.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

There are many possible reasons you may be giving your work a second dusting, but this period won’t last long, only a little over three weeks, until March 9.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Mrs. Fairfax was dusting some vases of fine purple spar, which stood on a sideboard.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Our plans being thus arranged to our mutual satisfaction, the Doctor took me into the house to present me to Mrs. Strong, whom we found in the Doctor's new study, dusting his books,—a freedom which he never permitted anybody else to take with those sacred favourites.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls, said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

For one, Mars will be in trine (a lovely aspect) to unpredictable Uranus, sprinkling that evening with a dusting of sparkling surprises, lifting your spirits, and making you realize when love is real, love lasts forever.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

I gave another tug before I answered, for I wanted the bird to be secure of its bread: the sash yielded; I scattered the crumbs, some on the stone sill, some on the cherry-tree bough, then, closing the window, I replied—No, Bessie; I have only just finished dusting.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

This obliging offer was gladly accepted, and Margaret retired to the parlor, which she hastily put in order by whisking the litter under the sofa and shutting the blinds to save the trouble of dusting.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Bessie had now finished dusting and tidying the room, and having washed her hands, she opened a certain little drawer, full of splendid shreds of silk and satin, and began making a new bonnet for Georgiana's doll.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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