diamond dust
- noun
:
brillo de diamante
- Next up, I am going to try out the Diamond Dust and I'm just going to pop this right on the high points of my face.
Examples
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She dusted her eyelids with diamond dust to create a sparkling look for the party.
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Deep wrinkle filler combines a unique blend of skin like polymers and light reflecting diamond dust to visibly fill in the look of fine lines and wrinkles.
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The artist used diamond dust in her collage to add an elegant shimmer to her artwork.
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For the wedding decorations, they sprinkled diamond dust on the tables to enhance the ambiance with a glittery finish.
Synonyms
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Very small shiny pieces used to decorate things
How Sparkly
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'diamond' (a sparkly gemstone) + 'dust' (tiny particles), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it means very fine particles with a diamond-like sparkle or appearance. This compound follows a common noun+noun composition pattern (a type of dust) and is cross-linguistically transparent, even if speakers may not know whether it is literal diamond particles or glittery imitation.
Etymology
Diamond dust names a very fine glittery powder because tiny shiny pieces look like crushed diamond and they are spread like dust, so the term means 'a very fine glittery powder'.