Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brush made of feathers, fine bristles, tissue-paper, or the like, for removing dust, as from furniture, walls, framed pictures, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
brush offeathers ,bristles , orhair , for removingdust fromfurniture .
Etymologies
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dust + brush
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Examples
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For the first two days, when she could get no one to talk to her, she passed most of her time sitting in the cabin, holding in one of her hands a dustbrush, and in the other
The Great Stone of Sardis Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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