DCHP-1 Online
poudre la poudre Cdn French 
n. See quotes at poudrerie.
See also: poudrerie
- 1791 (1911) There is little wind here, except with a snowstorm of fine snow. The French call it poudre or powdered snow, and to travel with that blowing in one's face is very disagreeable.
- 1832 The Canadians and Acadians call this kind of drift La Poudre.
- 1901 It was a goodly scene . . . the flowery tracery of frost hanging like cobwebs everywhere; the poudre sparkle in the air. . . .
- 1791 (1911) There is little wind here, except with a snowstorm of fine snow. The French call it poudre or powdered snow, and to travel with that blowing in one's face is very disagreeable.