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  • noun Plural form of air-brush.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of air-brush.

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Examples

  • I'm struck about how many wetsuit pics there are on the web where the model leaves nothing to chance and actually air-brushes his own head out of the shot see above for example.

    Good Luck James Kerron Cross 2006

  • Golly! it isn't three weeks ago I first set eyes on 'im, and then' e was smart and set up -- 'ands full of' air-brushes and things, and swearin 'at me.

    The War in the Air 1906

  • “He’s a great big athlatic feller — six foot i, with a pair of black whiskers like air-brushes — with a look of

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • Golly! it isn’t three weeks ago I first set eyes on ’im, and then ‘e was smart and set up — ‘ands full of ‘air-brushes and things, and swearin’ at me.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • “He’s a great big athlatic feller — six foot i, with a pair of black whiskers like air-brushes — with a look of

    Burlesques 2006

  • "Perfumery supplied for five years; that man used more 'air-brushes than any duke in the land, and as for eau-de-Cologne, he must have bathed himself in it.

    Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "He's a great big athlatic feller -- six foot i, with a pair of black whiskers like air-brushes -- with a look of a Colonel in the harmy -- a dangerous pawmpus-spoken raskle I warrunt you.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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