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Sticks that wear bristles so your hands don't wear the paint.
means Tools with bunched hairs or fibers fixed to a handle, used to apply, spread, or sweep away substances.
from From Old French brosse, meaning brushwood or bundled twigs — the first brushes were literally fistfuls of plant.
Hair sourcesSable, hog, squirrel, and synthetic nylon all qualify.
Da VinciDetailed Mona Lisa with brushes finer than eyelashes.
Number systemSizes run from a hairlike 0 up to housepaint giants.