bristle
15
3.5
- noun
- /ˈbrɪsəl/
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cerda
- It's got really, really short bristles and it's a plastic brush.
- a bristle brush
- bristles wear away
It's a natural bristle wand, which I typically tend to go for.
- It's a natural bristle wand, which I typically tend to go for.
- So apparently the petal shaped bristles hug and coat the lashes from root to tip.
- So I feel like all the brush, all the bristles are quite kind of like round and together.
Examples
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We applied it with Rachel's bristle brushes, the same ones she used for her encaustic paintings.
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I'm using a smoothing brush with some fine bristles just to make sure that it's nice and smooth.
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Oh, I like this a lot with this little bristle tip too.
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It's a natural bristle wand, which I typically tend to go for.
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I'm just lightly letting the bristles do the work.
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They're quite short bristles as well, which is what I like.
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In the oil paint sample we collected, we found both badger hair and nylon bristles.
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The artist selected a brush made of natural bristles to create fine details in her painting.
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The broom's rubberized bristles effectively capture dust and debris from the floor.
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The painter prefers using brushes with soft bristles to achieve a smooth finish on the canvas.
Synonyms
A stiff hair on animals and plants that helps them feel or move
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.7
A brush with short, stiff hairs for cleaning or painting rough surfaces
- Specialized
A small fern with thin, often almost clear leaves that grows on trees or mossy banks
A grass that has curved flower spikes and long stiff hairs under each small flower
- Specialized
A fern with soft, hairy creeping stems that look like a rabbit's foot
How Pointed
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word bristle comes from an old German word, like German Borste, that meant 'stiff hair'. So a bristle is a short, stiff hair, like the tiny hairs on a brush.