Keatingn.
/ˈkiːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkidɪŋ/ Used (usually attributive or in the possessive) as the proprietary name of an insect powder first manufactured by Keating.
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1876 Trade Marks Jrnl. 11 Oct. 576/2 Keating's Persian insect destroying powder..Thomas Keating.
1886 B. Potter Jrnl. Dec. (1966) 193 The little room above the saddle room was sprayed with Keatings powder and shut up.
1893 E. F. Benson Dodo II. xviii. 378 I am in England... I shall sleep in a clean white bed, and I shall not have to use Keating.
1909 Trade Marks Jrnl. 24 Mar. 487 Keating's Powder... Insect Destroying Powder. Thomas Keating..Wholesale Chemists.
1915 A. D. Gillespie Let. 1 July in Lett. from Flanders (1916) 218 I have plenty of Keating's powder left.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go iii. ii. 84 And are you going to comb 'em out, or do you propose to use Keating's?
1926 A. Huxley Let. 10 Aug. (1969) 271 The typhoid is said to be very bad…be fore~armed and take a lot of Keatings.
1928 F. Stark Lett. from Syria (1942) iv. 136 As for fleas, Keating's has succumbed to numbers.
1941 G. Greene in Spectator 4 July 8/2 Keating's Powder has taken the place of the military escort.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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