1596 T. Nashe sig. O3v His case of head-brushes and beard-brushes.
1632 Edinb. Test. LVI. f. 23, in at Hede, Heid Tuentie sevin heid brushes.
1850 8 Oct. One of the hairs left in the head brush of Miss Lind at New York, has been sold for eleven thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars.
1993 P. Ackroyd (1994) iii. 108 He asked the barber the price..of head-brushes and of beard-brushes.