What is "bepowder"

Usage examples of "bepowder".

Hackneys and sedan chairs hurried up and down the street, bearing bewigged and bepowdered gentlemen and ladies.

For weeks Claude worked hard at a study of some lightermen unloading a cargo of plaster, carrying white sacks on their shoulders, leaving a white pathway behind them, and bepowdered with white themselves, whilst hard by the coal removed from another barge had stained the waterside with a huge inky smear.