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n. - A tool with bristles used for cleaning garments.

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Usage examples (9)
  • A clothesbrush and a tin cup were the only foreign objects on the overwrought, gilded table to the other side of a red velvet chair beside the fringed canopy bed.
  • Everything was mentioned, the number of handkerchiefs, the condition of the comb, of the hairbrush and clothesbrush, with sketches showing the position of each item.
  • "Let us go in, and they will lend you a clothesbrush."
  • He is a little dark man, with quick, questioning eyes, and hair like a clothesbrush.
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