brassy
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Marks jumped at the chance to perform for free inside the theater, his brassy freewheeling equally complementing and contrasting the sounds of the intersection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
She was joined in the top 10 by another U.K. singer, Raye, who favors swank Sixties outfits and has a brassy hit called “Where Is My Husband!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The star, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was competing with himself for song and record of the year, as the brassy “Baile Inolvidable” and the mournful “DTMF” were nominated in both categories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
As performers, Waddington and Alfaiate are less timeless than than they are out of time, bringing soul and shading to silent-movie archetypes of the timid man and his brassy gal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
They were passing the apple tree, when Lancelot’s charger gave a brassy neigh.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Simone Thiou de la Chaume, 15, petite Parisian prodigy, smacked her drives, whacked her brassies, cracked her irons, popped her putts in, won the British Girls' Golf Championship, was hailed "Lenglen of the Links."
From Time Magazine Archive
I am a strong believer in having reserve drivers and brassies, even if one is only a very moderate golfer.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
He has a larger collection of drivers, brassies, cleeks, mashies, midirons, jiggers, niblicks, putters and other tools than Billy Moon, and Moon is a specialist in that direction.
From John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life by Frederick Upham Adams
We called these tin-plated drivers our brassies, and they were certainly an improvement on our original clubs.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
"About a full drive, two brassies and a putt."
From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various
Through the years, as its audiences grew to arena size, the band was bolstered with keyboards, electric guitar and horns, growing brawnier, weightier and brassier.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2023
Soft-spoken and diffident, Biggie gets lost within the pages of “It Was All a Dream,” upstaged by more purpose-driven or brassier peers, including fellow rapper and early career mentor Tupac Shakur.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
Once they graduated to the line, they adopted the brassier, saltier argot that cooking in conditions of extreme heat and pressure seemed to require.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
The brass are brassier, and the woodwinds blow through mysterious Finnish forests — but also have the cheery flavor of delicious small Finnish summer strawberries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2016
The cornet could be heard approaching nearer and nearer becoming brassier and brassier.
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
He goes on to sketch his brassiest teenage move of all — picking up the phone one day in 1999 and calling Walter Alvarez at the University of California at Berkeley.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2018
What’s life like for those who reach for the brassiest of brass rings—the American presidency—and miss?
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2012
Staffers on France-Soir, the brightest, brassiest and widest-read daily in Paris, are used to the boss's violent temper tantrums.
From Time Magazine Archive
The answer, as given by the brassiest brass hats in the area: Three weeks ago it began to look as if the Japanese had decided they did not want to invade Australia.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It's the brassiest thing that ever I clapped eyes on—say eightpence and a bit of supper?"
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson
