paintbrush

[ peynt-bruhsh ]

/ ˈpeɪntˌbrʌʃ /

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

any plant of the genus Castilleja.

Origin of paintbrush

First recorded in 1820–30; paint + brush¹

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

paintbrush

/ (ˈpeɪntˌbrʌʃ) /

a brush used to apply paint