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   brass

   /brɑːs/

   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 round flat brass ornament for the harness of a draught horse. British
   • ▪ a memorial, typically a medieval one, consisting of a flat piece of inscribed brass, laid in the floor or set into the wall of a church: "children do not appear on memorial brasses until the 1420s"
   • ▪ a brass block or die used for stamping a design on a book binding.
   • 2. brass wind instruments (including trumpet, horn, and trombone) forming a band or a section of an orchestra: "the brass were consistently too loud"
   • 3. people in authority or of high military rank: informal "the top brass of the Jockey Club"
   • 4. money: informal British "they wanted to spend their newly acquired brass"

   Word Origin Old Englishbræs, of unknown origin.

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