brushful

plural brushfuls · plural brushesful

1. A sufficient quantity to fill the bristles of a brush.

   Dip your brush into the paint and transfer two or three brushesful onto the palette.

   1942, Carl Rousseau Havighorst, Simplified Show Card Writing, Butterick Company, page 13

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   Fougère Royale (Royal Fern) Shaving Cream absorbs brushesful of water and whips up a close, fine-textured, beard-softening lather with the refreshing odor of Royal Fern.

   1927 February 7, “If you are hard to shave: Try this New Way!”, in Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, volume IX, number 6, page 4

   Finally, remembering their patience with the fenced sycamore, I resolved to give the cottonwood trunk a few brushesful every few months just on principle.

   1977, Jack Couffer, Mike Couffer, Canyon Summer, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 61

   Legs dangle and pinwheel in the light morning breeze and the head sags over as Dan Bergeron slops a thick, opaque brushful of wheat paste across the chest, pinning it to the ragged brick.

   2009 May 10, Murray Whyte, “Evolution of a street art rebel”, in Toronto Star