Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brush for cleaning, blacking, or polishing shoes.
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Examples
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Hunchy took up a shoe-brush again, the woman went to peel potatoes, the children turned over the pages of some old magazines they had found.
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Hunchy got another shoe-brush and went on polishing, muttering angrily under his breath.
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Hunchy lost his temper suddenly and threw the shoe-brush he was using straight at Julian.
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The Rev. Sunil K. Masih, a portly 46-year-old with a shoe-brush mustache, administered the Indian Methodist church's northern conclave here for five years.
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Standing outside the city council door, on the Monday evening when the bill was finally passed, Mr. Samuel Blackman, president of the South Side Gas Company, a little, wispy man with shoe-brush whiskers, declared emphatically:
The Titan 2004
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Yellow as gamboge, bald except for hair behind his ears that looked like a worn-out shoe-brush, nose broken down the middle, a squinting eye, the foul lees and dregs of a man.
Melville in Love Hardwick, Elizabeth 2000
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Would some other officer look at the ledger and wonder who had written -fivepence, one shoe-brush-, against the name Thomas Cresacre?
Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981
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To Thomas Cresacre, Private, was debited the cost of one new shoe-brush.
Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981
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To Thomas Cresacre, Private, was debited the cost of one new shoe-brush.
Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981
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The window-cleaner waved a shoe-brush at Fatty, and the boy went round to the front, untied Buster from the fence and walked back home.
The Mystery of Holly Lane Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953
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