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English
Etymology
dust + ridden
Adjective
dust-ridden (comparative more dust-ridden, superlative most dust-ridden)
- Full of or covered with dust.
1881, James Thomas Fields, “To Leigh Hunt in Elysium”, in Underbrush, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 388:As an author, you have not passed away “like a weaver’s shuttle,” and not one of your modest tomes is dust-ridden or smells of mortality.
1914, E. F. Benson, chapter 1, in Arundel, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Prologue, page 7:[…] carob-trees, dense and varnished of foliage […] met and mingled their branches together overhead, giving a vault of shadow from a midday sun, but now as the day drew near to its close, the level rays poured dazzling between the tree-trunks, turning the dust-ridden air into a mist of dusky gold.
1948 October 11, “For Stiffened Lungs”, in Time:A poor man’s disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places. In remote mining valleys, in slums near dust-ridden factories, the victims drag out their lives, struggling for each breath.