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a1529 J. Skelton Defendar against Lusty Garnyshe v. 53 in Poet. Wks. (1843) I. 128 Sche seyd ye war coluryd with cole dust.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 167 It were but to drawe men out of lime into coledust.

1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. sig. H4^v My visadge Smug'd thus with cole-dust.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 201 They fill it [sc. a wooden mould] with Coal-dust, and apply it to your Arm, so that they leave upon the same, the Mark of what is cut in the Mould.

1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (rev. ed.) App. p. lxv Fill'd with a composition of coarse coal-dust.

1773 S. Johnson Let. 25 Aug. (1992) II. 56 Her turf for fire was laid in one place, and her balls of coaldust in another.

1824 S. Afr. Commerc. Advertiser 28 Jan. 30 Public Sale... 396 Schepels of Coals and Coal Dust, in Lots of 36 Schepels each.

1862 D. T. Ansted Short Trip Hungary & Transylvania 194 It has been attempted..to make the coal-dust into bricks.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xii. 122 When she picked herself up, her face, stained with coal dust, sent the boys into roars of laughter.

1956 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 21 Apr. 26/6 They discovered signs that the coal-flap had been lifted and coal dust was trodden into the bedroom carpet.

2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 Oct. 22/2 The building housing the penguins..was full of hazardous coal dust.