| Pronunciation: | | 'brasee
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| Matching Terms: | | brass, brass band, brass buttons, brass hat, brass knuckles, brass knucks, brass monkey, brass section, brassage, brassaia actinophylla, brassard, brassart, brassavola, brassbound, brasse, brasserie, brassets, brassia, brassia lawrenceana, brassia verrucosa, brassica, brassica hirta, brassica juncea, brassica kaber, brassica napus, brassica napus napobrassica, brassica nigra, brassica oleracea, brassica oleracea acephala, brassica oleracea botrytis, brassica oleracea capitata, brassica oleracea gemmifera, brassica oleracea gongylodes, brassica oleracea italica, brassica perviridis, brassica rapa, brassica rapa chinensis, brassica rapa pekinensis, brassica rapa perviridis, brassica rapa ruvo, brassicaceae, brassicaceous, brassie, brassiere, brassiness, brasslike, brass-visaged
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- [adj] unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
- [adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- [adj] resembling the sound of a brass instrument
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| | Synonyms: | | audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bold-faced, brasslike, brazen, brazen-faced, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, in poor taste(p), insolent, loud, meretricious, tacky, tasteless, tatty, tawdry, trashy, unashamed |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Brass"y\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance,
or hardness, of brass.
2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]
\Brass"y\, n. [Written also {brassie} and {brassey}.]
(Golf)
A wooden club soled with brass.
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