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ˈdandy-brush
[app. f. dandy n.1]
A stiff brush used in cleaning horses, made of split whalebone or vegetable fibre, as the stiff root fibres of Chrysopogon Gryllus, the Venetian or French Whisk.
1845Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VI. i. 77 Then have every bullock well brushed with what is called a dandy-brush (being a brush made with whale-bone, for taking the rough dirt off horses). 1879M. E. Braddon Vixen xxxii. 249 Poor Bates..brushed away more than one silent tear with the back of the dandy-brush. |