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Word: tarbrush (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Envious of quick-tanning athletic types, milk-faced Cogg-Willoughby fought back at weekend parties by muttering about how easy it is for Mediterranean types to acquire a tan, managing to imply that the bronzed fellows probably had a touch of the tarbrush in their ancestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ploy Boy | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...this way, reports Potter, Cogg-Willoughby was able to suggest that De Sint probably had a "touch of the tarbrush in his ancestry." De Sint spent the rest of the weekend fully clothed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blitzleisch v. Rotzleisch | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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