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n. (plural of brushing English)
Usage examples of "brushings".
Benet forsook his broom in haste, left his pile of brushings lying, and went to pick Brother Cadfael’s brains.
This was a bit of a relief, since casual brushings were the main cause of unexpected fights breaking out ("You touched me!
After my showers, my removal of bristles, my brushings and combings, I was now careful to remove any hairs from the floor.
I heard the chink of glasses held by twined arms, and gentle brushings of lips.
Outside the fence, in the angle of the cemetery wall, there was a great pile of dried brushings from the final reaping of the grass slope between the hospital and the road.
His chin was shaven clean, and all the bones of his face were as bold and elegant as his colouring was vivid, with russet brushings of sun on high cheekbones, and a red, audacious, self-willed mouth.
The brushings of the grass this way and that were ordered, not the marks of a fight.