powderless
adjEtymology From powder + -less.
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Without the use or presence of powder.
- powderless gloves
- powderless ammunition
2 more examples
- a powderless etching
- Jeanne sucked back air in a gasp; the ravaged face of this pretty woman, powderless, splotched, and tearstained, one she had known for a lifetime, was frightening.2009, Donna Russo Morin, chapter 17, in The Courtier’s Secret, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing, →ISBN: