paintbrush

[ peynt-bruhsh ]

/ ˈpeɪntˌbrʌʃ /

noun

a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.

any plant of the genus Castilleja.

Nearby words

paint the town red, paint-by-numbers, paintball, paintball game, paintbox, paintbrush, painted, painted beauty, painted bunting, painted cup, painted desert

Origin of paintbrush

First recorded in 1820–30; paint + brush¹

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Examples from the Web for paintbrush

So he was really using a paintbrush for the first time in his life.
Can You Paint Like Johannes Vermeer, Too?|Andrew Romano|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The younger Kate, in contrast, turned her own schoolgirl training with a paintbrush into a career.
Charles Dickens’s Unhappy Children|Michael Gorra|December 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Long stretches between are filled "shot gun" houses, unaquainted for many years with a paintbrush.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4|Work Projects Administration
These last indeed owe their colouring to a layer of pigment which the point of a paintbrush will easily loosen and remove.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles|Jean Henri Fabre

Desert primroses showed their rounded pink clusters in sunny places, and here and there burned the carmine of Indian paintbrush.
The Call of the Canyon|Zane Grey
So Santa Claus rises up very stiffly and painfully, and hobbles across the room to get his paint and paintbrush.
Up the Chimney|Shepherd Knapp
In 1906 London went quite mad over a Venus whose entire wardrobe was applied with a paintbrush.
The Footlights Fore and Aft|Channing Pollock

British Dictionary definitions for paintbrush

paintbrush

/ (ˈpeɪntˌbrʌʃ) /

noun

a brush used to apply paint

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paintbrush

noun

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British Dictionary definitions for paintbrush

paintbrush

noun