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dusty

adjective
 
 
/ˈdʌs.ti/

Definition

B1 covered in dust: Heaps of dusty books lay on the floor. We drove along the dusty road.Dirty and untidy slightly grey in colour: dusty pinkBlack, white and grey
(Definition of dusty adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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