Definitions for paintbrushes

paintbrushes paint·brush

Spelling: [peynt-bruhsh]
IPA: /ˈpeɪntˌbrʌʃ/

Paintbrushes is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 2306 anagrams from letters in paintbrushes (abehinprsstu).

Definitions for paintbrushes

noun

  1. a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
  2. any plant of the genus Castilleja.

Origin of paintbrushes

First recorded in 1820-30; paint + brush1

Examples for paintbrushes

Here the columbine, the paintbrush, the monument-plant, and scores of other bright blossoms cheer the wild frontier.

The younger Kate, in contrast, turned her own schoolgirl training with a paintbrush into a career.

Desert primroses showed their rounded pink clusters in sunny places, and here and there burned the carmine of Indian paintbrush.

But the call for the wielders of the paintbrush came not only from the sea.

These last indeed owe their colouring to a layer of pigment which the point of a paintbrush will easily loosen and remove.

In 1906 London went quite mad over a Venus whose entire wardrobe was applied with a paintbrush.

So he was really using a paintbrush for the first time in his life.

Like Mr. Winston Churchill, he diverts his leisure with a paintbrush.

Long stretches between are filled "shot gun" houses, unaquainted for many years with a paintbrush.

Well, he hoped to goodness that she would not, and brusquely wielded his paintbrush.

Word Value for paintbrushes
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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