powder burn

== English == === Alternative forms === powder-burn === Noun === powder burn (plural powder burns) A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm. 2013 Oct. 8, grumpynerd, "Writer's Book Report: TRUE GRIT," Daily Kos (retrieved 13 May 2014): Tom Chaney is a depraved man who kills for no good reason. . . . Chaney has a powder burn on his face. === References === “powder burn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.