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French
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cuivre jaune
, laiton
, plaque en cuivre
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Brass
- (n.) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.
- (n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.
- (n.) A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.
- (n.) An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.
- (n.) Impudence; a brazen face.
- (n.) Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
- (n.) Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
Synonyms:
Administration, Boldness, Cheek, Establishment, Face, Governance, Nerve, Organization, Plaque,
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• Brassiness
- (n.) The state, condition, or quality of being brassy.
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• Brassart
- (n.) Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.
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• Brassy
- (a.) Impudent; impudently bold.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
- (n.) A wooden club soled with brass.
Synonyms:
Audacious, Barefaced, Bold-faced, Brazen, Cheap, Flash, Flashy, Garish, Gaudy, Gimcrack, Insolent, Loud, Meretricious, Tacky, Tatty, Tawdry, Trashy,
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crested, foxy, courage, flood, subsiding, subsidiary, pedagogical, infuse, hustler, plough, infuriated, floppy, position, infringement, demarcation, perennial, persian, pegmatite, bastioned, voiced, pawnshop, entrant, depilatory, ingraining, pesticides, science, hydrometer, schoolboy, reputation, warehousing, warehouse, warden, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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