clothesbrush
nounEtymology From clothes + brush.
1
A brush for the clothes.
- 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.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- 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.1941, Consumers' research bulletin annual, page 218: