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  • noun obsolete A lady's maid.

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Examples

  • The reader then must know, that the maid who at present attended on Sophia was recommended by Lady Bellaston, with whom she had lived for some time in the capacity of a comb-brush: she was a very sensible girl, and had received the strictest instructions to watch her young lady very carefully.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • Sophia was recommended by Lady Bellaston, with whom she had lived for some time in the capacity of a comb-brush: she was a very sensible girl, and had received the strictest instructions to watch her young lady very carefully.

    History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730

  • And c he is a great sea in a gled bone of beef, a woman's dirty night - cap, a comb-brush, an old stocking, and a child's urinal.

    the liberal critic or memoirs of henry percy conveying a correct estimate of the manners and ... thomas ashe 1812

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