"coloured powder" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a fine, powdered substance that is tinted or dyed a specific color. Example: The artist carefully mixed different shades of coloured powder to create a vibrant painting.
The boisterous spring festival of Holi is celebrated by people showering coloured powder (or coloured powder mixed with water) on each other, irrespective of age or social status.
We have traditional snacks, a DJ, coloured powder, water guns and water balloons.
"It would be a little more difficult for Indians to go around throwing coloured powder on people for the Holi festival during a British springtime," said Professor Nesbitt.
Apparently, his mother playfully told him he could use coloured powder to make them both the same.
Often associated with the beginning of a new season and the triumph of good over evil, people all over India gathered in the streets to throw coloured powder (gulal) over family, friends and complete strangers.
Determinedly, he performs a ritual involving the blowing of coloured powder into the horse's face.
The fingerprints are made mostly comprised of fat residue and sweat and can be highlighted by sprinkling surfaces with coloured powders.
Derived from sacred syllables (mantras) or from geometric designs endowed with mystical and cosmological symbolism, they are executed on sand, on the ground with coloured powders, and on durable materials.
It was almost as if a Turner Prize-winning artist had been at the site 10 minutes before tipping coloured powders into the holes to make a metaphorical point about an artist and his/her palette, or a reflective pun on the term 'landscape painting'.
The black coloured powders of both the adsorbents are obtained after drying in oven at 105 °C and sieving through the mesh size of 80 150 μm mesh size.
Over two days each spring, people gather in public spaces all over India to chase each other around, throw handfuls of coloured powders at one another and get drenched in water.
