PIEPOWDER

PRONUNCIATION: (PY-pow-duhr)

MEANING: noun: A traveler, especially a traveling merchant.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French pie (foot) + poudre (powder, dust). Earliest documented use: 1436.
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PINE-POWDER - mixed with Elmers Glue, forms a paste suitable for filling holes and dents in wood furniture

PI (E-POWER) - a mathematical expression (pi to the e, or 3.14159...-to-the 2.718281828... , equal to approximately 22.4591) of no particular theoretical use yet

PILE-POWDER - the granular dirt that accumulates under a rug