单词 | paintbrush |
释义 | paintbrushn. 1. A brush for applying paint. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [noun] > product of painting > relating to application of paintbrush?1762 paint roller1935 masking tape1936 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > brush brush1483 painter's brush1685 brush-pencil1702 painting brush1737 paintbrush?1762 ?1762 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1883) IV. 50 Now my father has left his Paint Brushes. 1772 N.-Y. Jrnl. 11 June 3/3 (advt.) L. Kilburn's Paint Store, At the White Hall, New York Hath for Sale, White Lead..Paint brushes. 1827 J. Woodman Brit. Patent 5476 2 My paint brush is of bristles. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad lviii. 618 Some were close-shaven, all over, except that a tuft like a paint-brush was left on the end of the tail. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xvii. 286 Speaking indistinctly because of a paint-brush in her mouth. 1987 N. Hinton Buddy's Song ii. 8 Buddy bent down and laid the paintbrush across the top of the can. 2. Any of the hemiparasitic plants that constitute the genus Castilleja (family Scrophulariaceae), having inconspicuous flowers half-concealed by showy bracts which are often green at the base, but become various shades of red, pink, yellow, or orange towards the tips. More fully Indian paintbrush, Indian's paintbrush. Also with other distinguishing words. Also called painted cup. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > North American > Indian paint-brush painter's brush1869 Indian paintbrush1892 paintbrush1915 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 101 Castilleia coccinea..Indian paint-brush. 1915 M. Armstrong & J. J. Thornber Field Bk. Western Wild Flowers 472 Paint Brush. Castilleja miniata. Red. Summer. Northwest. This is a very handsome kind, from one to four feet tall. 1946 Mazama Dec. 35/2 An acre or more of the steep hillside was thickly carpeted with blue lupines, red and orange Indian paint brushes, and asters. 1968 Mrs. L. B. Johnson Diary 9 Apr. in White House Diary (1970) 656 Great splashes of wildflowers began to appear along the road and in the pastures..pale pink buttercups, wild verbena, coral paint brush, Indian blanket. 1992 Explore June 37/1 In summer, alpine flowers such as the glacier lily, lupine and Indian paintbrush cover the meadows. 2000 Nature Conservancy July–Aug. 33/1 The 147-acre gift..supports a robust population of the globally rare golden paintbrush. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1762 |
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