piepowder

Origin: [[File:Image taken from page 949 of 'Old and New London, etc' (11189785765).jpg|thumb|A 19th-century illustration of a piepowder (sense 2) being held in London.]] From the following: * Late , pipouder, from , pié poudrous (compare (Poitou) (modern (obsolete))), from pé, pié + poudrous, poudrus; pié is derived from (modern ), from , the of pēs, ultimately from ; while poudrous, poudrus (modern ) is from (from , the accusative singular of pulvis, from ) + -ous (a variant of -us); and * Late , pypoudrus, from pe-poudre (see above). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).