Word.ws English Dictionary

comb-brushes

comb-brushes is the plural of comb-brush.

Meaning of comb-brush

Noun

comb-brush (plural comb-brushes)

  1. (obsolete) A lady's maid.
    • the maid who at present attended on Sophia was recommended by Lady Bellaston, with whom she had lived for some time in the capacity of a comb-brush; she was a very sensible girl […]1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 636

Questions about comb-brushes

What is comb-brushes the plural of?
Comb-brushes is the plural of comb-brush.

Words near comb-brushes in the dictionary

  1. comb someone's hair the wrong way
  2. comb test
  3. comb tests
  4. comb through
  5. comb-brush
  6. comb-brushes
  7. comb-crested jacana
  8. comb-footed spider
  9. comb-footed spiders
  10. comb-honey
  11. comb-honeys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: comb-brushes (page history and authors); comb-brush (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “comb-brushes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/comb-brushes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.