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Brass   /bræs/   Listen
Brass

noun
(pl. brasses)
1.
An alloy of copper and zinc.
2.
A wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece.  Synonym: brass instrument.
3.
The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something.  Synonyms: administration, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization.  "The governance of an association is responsible to its members" , "He quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
4.
Impudent aggressiveness.  Synonyms: boldness, cheek, face, nerve.  "He had the effrontery to question my honesty"
5.
An ornament or utensil made of brass.
6.
The section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments.  Synonym: brass section.
7.
A memorial made of brass.  Synonyms: memorial tablet, plaque.



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"Brass" Quotes from Famous Books



... that had finished rearing their young by the sixteenth of June were fortunate, for on the morning of that day a great and continuous shouting, with gun-firing, banging on old brass and iron utensils, with various other loud, unusual noises, were heard at one extremity of the village, and continued with occasional quiet intervals until evening. This tempest of rude sounds spread from day to day, until the entire area of the ...
— Birds in Town and Village • W. H. Hudson
... you'd ha' thought that Bob Pretty's 'ouse was a peep-show. Everybody stared at the winders as they went by, and the children played in front of the 'ouse and stared in all day long. Then the old gentleman was seen one day as bold as brass sitting at the winder, and we heard that it was a pore old tramp Bob Pretty 'ad met on the road and given a home to, and he didn't like 'is good-'artedness to be known for fear he should be ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... coiled themselves to sleep in the noon-day sun, still contained gold enough to reward patient industry—industry of which the foreign-devils were not capable when the result would be but five pennyweights a day, washed out in the hot waters of the creek under a sky of brass, "with flour at two-pounds-ten per 50 lb. ...
— Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories - 1904 • Louis Becke
... more inspiring congregational singing, and the use of the piano, organ, orchestra and brass band are important factors in the curriculum. In the chapel I spoke to an audience so attentive, so alert, so receptive, so filled with animation, that the whole place looked like a vast advertisement ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard
... him for a moment thoughtfully. Phipps was a man of brass, without sensitiveness or sensibility. Nevertheless, he flushed a little. Just then dinner was announced and Lady Amesbury bustled once more into the midst ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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