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hairbrushes

  • plural
    of hairbrush.
    hairbrush
    noun
    a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.

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"Back in the day, we'd have war zones over hairbrushes," says Raye.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

As whales were hunted for their oil, people fashioned baleen into products such as hairbrushes and corsets.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2021

Tell her that if she notices something that’s out of place, she should ask you to put it away yourself, and that you don’t want her cleaning your hairbrushes or rearranging your toiletries.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2018

Where would we be without people making better hairbrushes, or toothbrushes or mops?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 25, 2017

Magazines, clocks, clothes, pots and pans, sofa cushions, video game controllers, hairbrushes, books—they all swirled around in the dark, foamy water that pushed and pulled through the open front door and the broken windows.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz