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paintbrush

[ peynt-bruhsh ]

noun

  1. a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting painting houses or one used in painting painting pictures.
  2. any plant of the genus Castilleja.


paintbrush

/ ˈpeɪntˌbrʌʃ /

noun

  1. a brush used to apply paint
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of paintbrush1

First recorded in 1820–30; paint + brush 1
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Example Sentences

Kneeling in the thick grass, he lifted a rock the size of a loaf of bread, then began clearing loose soil underneath with a small paintbrush.

With AI art, it’s the machine that manipulates the paintbrush.

Beeple’s art is generated by digital software packages such as Adobe Photoshop that allow artists to manipulate images, rather like manipulating a paintbrush.

Below, in the ash bed, two barefoot interns are clearing ash away with paintbrushes.

Although Neel was the one with the paintbrush, in other words, she was willing to give Georgie an unusual degree of agency.

Yves Klein first painted a naked woman blue in 1958 and used her as a “human paintbrush.”

So he was really using a paintbrush for the first time in his life.

The Psycho theme song rang in my head as her poop-filled paintbrush crept closer to my face.

The younger Kate, in contrast, turned her own schoolgirl training with a paintbrush into a career.

But the call for the wielders of the paintbrush came not only from the sea.

Desert primroses showed their rounded pink clusters in sunny places, and here and there burned the carmine of Indian paintbrush.

Here the columbine, the paintbrush, the monument-plant, and scores of other bright blossoms cheer the wild frontier.

Autumn's gorgeous paintbrush laid wonderful coloring upon the maple and alder and birch that lined the lake shore.

In 1906 London went quite mad over a Venus whose entire wardrobe was applied with a paintbrush.

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