Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulvilio
Literary usage of Pulvilio
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... pulvilio, fine scented powder, cosmetic powder. Etherege, Man of Mode, iii.
... pulvilio-box, a scent-box, Wycherley, Plain Dealer, ii (Manly). ..."
2. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"... their clothes scented with pulvilio, orange, and jasmine, their French phrases,
introduced at every tenth word—in their often clownish conception of ..."
3. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"... at the same instant, descended upon the side of his couch with such violence,
that his periwig was struck off, and the whole room filled with pulvilio. ..."
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