clothesbrush

See also: clothes-brush and clothes brush

English

Alternative forms

• clothes brush

Etymology

From clothes +‎ brush.

Noun

clothesbrush (plural clothesbrushes)

1. A brush for the clothes.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Its removal revealed another case covered with dust. This we extracted from the iron chest without any difficulty, and removed the accumulated filth of years from it with a clothes-brush.

   • 1941, Consumers' research bulletin annual, page 218:

     Probably the most effective clothesbrushes are those with fairly stiff bristles, about 3/4 to 1 in. long, with tufts set 1/5 in. (preferably 1/4 in.) or more apart.

Translations

a brush for brushing clothes with

• Danish: klædebørste c
• Finnish: vaateharja (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klesbørste m

  Nynorsk: klebørste m, kledebørste m, klesbørste m