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- DictionaryBrass/bras/
noun
- 1. a yellow alloy of copper and zinc: "a brass plate on the door"
- ▪ a decorative object made of brass: "shining brasses stood on the mantelpiece"
- ▪ a memorial, typically medieval, consisting of a flat piece of inscribed brass, laid in the floor or set into the wall of a church.
- ▪ a brass block or die used for stamping a design on a book binding.
- ▪ money: "they wanted to spend their newly acquired brass"
- ▪ brass wind instruments (including trumpet, horn, trombone) forming a band or a section of an orchestra: "the brass and percussion were consistently too loud"
- ▪ people in authority or of high military rank.
- ▪ a person's hardness or effrontery: "he was the only one who had the brass to show his face"
Word Origin Old Englishbræs, of unknown origin.
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