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poudrerie Cdn French 
n. See quotes.
See also: poudre snow-smoke
- 1760 A circumstance that considerably adds to the horror of this season, is a kind of meteor seldom observed in other countries, and which the inhabitants distinguish by the name of poudrerie or powdering. It is a species of very fine snow, which insinuates itself into every hole and corner, and even into the minutest crevices.
- 1837 The whole of Sunday and Monday our city was enveloped in poudrerie, extremely unpropitious to the custom of making visits. . . .
- 1887 [In speaking of the climate near Hudson's Bay he uses the word poudrerie, adding in a parenthesis: "C'est ainsi qu'on appelle une petite neige qui s'insinue partout." This most expressive name for a storm of fine, hard, drifting, powdery snow has not yet been recognized in France.]
- 1951 The real northern blizzard has no match anywhere, and for it the old "coureur de bois" invented the word poudrerie.
- 1760 A circumstance that considerably adds to the horror of this season, is a kind of meteor seldom observed in other countries, and which the inhabitants distinguish by the name of poudrerie or powdering. It is a species of very fine snow, which insinuates itself into every hole and corner, and even into the minutest crevices.