dust-ridden

dust-ridden

English

Etymology

dust +‎ ridden

Adjective

dust-ridden (comparative more dust-ridden, superlative most dust-ridden)

1. Full of or covered with dust.
   • 1881, James Thomas Fields, “To Leigh Hunt in Elysium” in Underbrush, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 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, Arundel, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Prologue, Chapter 1, p. 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, “For Stiffened Lungs,” Time, 11 October, 1948,

     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.