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clothesbrush

noun

Etymology

From clothes + brush.

  1. derived from *bʰrusgo-✻
  2. derived from *bruskaz✻ — “tuft, thicket, underbrush”
  3. derived from *bruscia✻
  4. derived from *burstiz✻ — “bristle”
  5. derived from *bursti✻
  6. derived from *brustia✻
  7. derived from broisse
  8. inherited from brusshe
  9. compounded as clothesbrush — “clothes + brush”

Definitions

  1. A brush for the clothes.

    • Its removal revealed another case covered with dust. This we extracted from the iron chest without any difficulty, and removed the accumulated filth of years from it with a clothes-brush.
    • Probably the most effective clothesbrushes are those with fairly stiff bristles, about 3/4 to 1 in. long, with tufts set 1/5 in. (preferably 1/4 in.) or more apart.

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