dust-ridden

English

Etymology

dust + ridden

Adjective

dust-ridden (comparative more dust-ridden, superlative most dust-ridden)

  1. Full of or covered with dust.
    • 1881, James Thomas Fields, “To Leigh Hunt in Elysium” in Underbrush, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 388,
      As an author, you have not passed away “like a weaver’s shuttle,” and not one of your modest tomes is dust-ridden or smells of mortality.
    • 1914, E. F. Benson, Arundel, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Prologue, Chapter 1, p. 7,
      [] carob-trees, dense and varnished of foliage [] met and mingled their branches together overhead, giving a vault of shadow from a midday sun, but now as the day drew near to its close, the level rays poured dazzling between the tree-trunks, turning the dust-ridden air into a mist of dusky gold.
    • 1948, “For Stiffened Lungs,” Time, 11 October, 1948,
      A poor man’s disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places. In remote mining valleys, in slums near dust-ridden factories, the victims drag out their lives, struggling for each breath.
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