dust-bathe
洗尘,风尘仆仆,沐浴尘埃,沐浴尘土
Definitions
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dust-bathed, dust-bath·ing.Animal Behavior.
- : to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
Examples
Estee Lauder has not crumbled to dust because the perfect brown face of Joan Smalls represents it.
Moreover, trucks, dust, and boomtown stress are the effects of any large-scale industrial activity.
That is a lot of air pollution, noise, and yet more kicking up of dust.
Jasmin helps her transfer in and out of her wheelchair, get dressed, and bathe.
“I have full faith that this will happen,” Williams says, prepping her fairy dust for a flurry of happy thoughts.
In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
Never mind the dust; I've turned it on to make believe we're going tremendously fast.
He laid it upon the floor, and took out a plaster mask, and brushing and blowing off the saw-dust, held it up.
When the smoke and dust cleared away nothing stirred on the whole of that piece of ground.