Definitions for brasses

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brasses brass

Spelling: [bras, brahs]

IPA: /bræs, brɑs/

Brasses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in brasses (abersss).

Definitions for brasses

noun

1. any of various metal alloys consisting mainly of copper and zinc.
2. a utensil, ornament, or other article made of such an alloy.
3. Music. brass instrument. brass instruments collectively in a band or orchestra.
4. metallic yellow; lemon, amber, or reddish yellow.
5. Informal. high-ranking military officers. any very important officials.
6. Informal. excessive self-assurance; impudence; effrontery.
7. Machinery. a replaceable semicylindrical shell, usually of bronze, used with another such to line a bearing; a half bushing.
8. British. a memorial tablet or plaque, often incised with an effigy, coat of arms, or the like.
9. Furniture. any piece of ornamental or functional hardware, as a drawer pull, made of brass.
10. British Slang. money.

adjective

1. of, made of, or pertaining to brass.
2. composed for or using musical instruments made of brass.
3. having the color brass.

Origin of brasses

before 1000; 1945-50 for def 5; Middle English bras, Old English bræs; cognate with Old Frisian bres copper, Middle Low German bras metal

Examples for brasses

The Riveters boast capos (chant leaders), tifos (giant club-support banners), drums, brass, and flags.

To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band.

Kirkwood smiled grimly, with a face of brass, impenetrable, inflexible.

The whole town was in a drunken reverie, singing and dancing to brass bands with the tribal beat of the Basques.

Ted tugged at the brass buttons of her red, wool-crepe dress.

Will you give us each a bracelet of brass as well as the rifles?

I will go further, and admit that the brass plates may not all be frauds.

So maybe we should take a lesson from women with brass ovaries: comedy and feminism are longstanding bedfellows.

The visitor's advent was announced again by the brass knocker on the front door.

At BeyondVape there is a board where people can record their last tobacco cigarette in brass, a way of committing to vaping.