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dust-ridden en · ADJ

Etymology

From dust + ridden.

Meanings

1. Full of or covered with dust.
   • As an author, you have not passed away “like a weaver’s shuttle,” and not one of your modest tomes is dust-ridden or smells of mortality. 1881, James Thomas Fields, “To Leigh Hunt in Elysium”, in Underbrush, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 388:
   • A poor man’s disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places. In remote mining valleys, in slums near dust-ridden factories, the victims drag out their lives, struggling for each breath. 1948 October 11, “For Stiffened Lungs”, in Time:
   • […] carob-trees, dense and varnished of foliage […] met and mingled their branches together overhead, giving a vault of shadow from a midday sun, but now as the day drew near to its close, the level rays poured dazzling between the tree-trunks, turning the dust-ridden air into a mist of dusky gold. 1914, E. F. Benson, chapter 1, in Arundel, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Prologue, page 7:

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