Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brush designed for rubbing the surface of the body to excite action in it by friction.
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Examples
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They likewise made use of the instrument called strigil, which was a kind of flesh-brush; a custom to which Persius alludes in this line,
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Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog -- to and fro on the floor, up and down, and round in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cartwhipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap-dish and the flesh-brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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Nothing improves the complexion like the daily use of the flesh-brush.
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The flesh-brush should be vigorously applied to all parts of the body, after which the skin must be carefully dried with Turkish or huck-a-back towels.
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Wash the face with a flesh-brush, and rub the lips well to tone their color.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Whether soap be used or not, it is well to apply the flesh-brush gently to the face and vigorously to the whole body.
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After being steeped in water for a few minutes, if the water be violently agitated, or if the _gogo_ be rubbed between the hands in the water, a white foam is produced, which exactly resembles soap bubbles, and assists the purification of the skin even better than soap does, being assisted by the fibres of the root, which are usually made to do the duty of a flesh-brush in the bath.
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking
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It is well to use a flesh-brush, and afterwards rinse off the soap-suds by briskly rubbing the body with a pair of coarse toilet gloves.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog -- to and fro on the floor, up and down, and round in great circles; at his eyes were red, and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap-dish and the flesh-brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog -- to and fro on the floor, up and down, and round in great circles; but his eyes were red, and he held on as the body cartwhipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap-dish and the flesh-brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
The Jungle Book. 1893
ruzuzu commented on the word flesh-brush
I can't believe it's not listed yet.
February 24, 2011
yarb commented on the word flesh-brush
Everything has some frictional value.
February 24, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word flesh-brush
I was intrigued by the other instrument in the third example:
"It is well to use a flesh-brush, and afterwards rinse off the soap-suds by briskly rubbing the body with a pair of coarse toilet gloves."
— Burroughs Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
February 24, 2011
yarb commented on the word flesh-brush
Don't you mean coarse toilet gloves?
October 31, 2014
bilby commented on the word flesh-brush
Of course.
October 31, 2014
yarb commented on the word flesh-brush
I must say I like the idea of this "flesh-brush". I might ask for one for Christmas.
November 1, 2014
yarb commented on the word flesh-brush
Dear Santa, this year I want a flesh-brush, some pricey booze and a labrador called Misha. Season's greetings, Yarb.
November 1, 2014
bilby commented on the word flesh-brush
I'm not sure if we have a Wordnik Santa. Although, like Westminster, we have an Abbie.
November 1, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word flesh-brush
*sings* It's beginning to look a lot like flesh-brush....
July 25, 2018