1699 E. Ward I. v. 8 Perriwigs..well drudg'd with the Barbers Powdering Puff.
1752 W. Guthrie tr. Cicero I. ii. 73 Now my Book was bedaubed with the very powdering Puff of Isocrates, I frizled it out with the curling Irons of his Followers.
1895 27 Dec. 7/2 It [sc. an elephant's trunk] is at once a syringe, a powdering puff and a hand.