Definitions
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- adverb rare In the manner of a
brush .
Etymologies
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brush + -wise
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Examples
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Then, at last, she did go off, after passing her sleeve brushwise over the cloth of the high altar, which seemed to her grey with dust.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871
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