DUST-COVERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dust-covered mean? 

• DUST-COVERED (adjective)
  The adjective DUST-COVERED has 1 sense:

1. covered with a layer of dust

  Familiarity information: DUST-COVERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUST-COVERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with a layer of dust

Synonyms:

dust-covered; dusty

Context example:

a dusty pile of books

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

He rose from his chair, and leaning heavily upon his two supporters, he tottered across the room to the dust-covered sideboard.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He indicated a heavily sealed dust-covered bottle which stood with two high glasses upon a salver.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Riding along on the train, near to the line between California and Oregon, he chanced to look out of the window and saw his unsociable guest sliding along the wagon road, brown and wolfish, tired yet tireless, dust-covered and soiled with two hundred miles of travel.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Strings of pedestrians, most of them so weary and dust-covered that it was evident that they had walked the thirty miles from London during the night, were plodding along by the sides of the road or trailing over the long mottled slopes of the moorland.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)