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Definition of Hairbrushes
1. hairbrush [n] - See also: hairbrush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairbrushes
Literary usage of Hairbrushes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including by Marion Harland (1902)
"TO CLEAN hairbrushes. Do not use soap, but put a tablespoon of hartshorn into
the water, having it only tepid, and dip up and down until clean; ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"hairbrushes mid Combs. Among the Indians and poorer Mexicans of northwestern
Mexico the custom" has been observed of using the fruit of ..."
3. On Veldt and Farm in Bechuanaland--Cape Colony--the Transvaal--and Natal by Frances Macnab, Agnes Fraser (1897)
"I went back to hunt in the chest of drawers, and found two unmistakably English
hairbrushes of the kind affected by the male gender. ..."
4. The Nugents of Carriconna: An Irish Story by Tighe Hopkins (1891)
"Noticeably, there were hairbrushes whose ebony backs were inlaid with silver; on
the chimney-piece were two scent-bottles with silver tops; ..."
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