brass
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A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
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A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
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A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass.
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A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.
A few measures later, the brass comes in strong!
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Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.
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The color of brass (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
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High-ranking officers: the brass hats.
The brass are not going to like this.
The brass is not going to like this.
I don't want to keep the brass waiting, Chief.
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familierA brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!
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vieilliMoney.
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Inferior composition.
Étymologie
From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *brasō (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small controlled fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”). In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.
adjectif
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Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
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Of the color of brass.
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familierImpertinent, bold: brazen.
At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough.
[...] he continued in the same insulting strain. "If you were not quite brass, you would know it is not proper to be making promises you dare not tell of."
It was a show of very large and very brass cojones, [...]
Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.
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argotBad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.
I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]
Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.
There are soldiers, policemen, priests and friars, as well as a motley mass of women, children, babies and dogs, and upon special occasions a very brass band.
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Of inferior composition.
As Honest Plush Brannon then, Mr. Beery is one of San Francisco's fancier con men and hence more brass than plush
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To coat with brass.
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argotA prostitute.
Health service glasses, gigolos and brasses, round or skinny bottoms
Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.
Étymologie
By ellipsis from brass nail, in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen"); and also shortened from Cockney Rhyming slang brass flute for "prostitute".
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argotBrass monkey; cold.
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historiqueSynonym of brace, a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and Portuguese braça, also French brasse.
Étymologie
From Portuguese braça and Spanish braza, from Old Galician-Portuguese and Old Spanish braça, from Latin brachia, variant of bracchium (“arm, cubit”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “upper arm”).
Formes
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- brasses
- comparatif
- more brass
- superlatif
- most brass
- passé
- brassed
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- brassed
- participe présent
- brassing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- brasses
brass · A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or…
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