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Definition of Brassiness
1. n. The state, condition, or quality of being brassy.
Definition of Brassiness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being brassy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brassiness
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Literary usage of Brassiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888 by Matthew Arnold (1895)
"... it has too much of the brassiness and smartness of a Times article in it.
This should be a warning to me not to write for the Times, or indeed for any ..."
2. Poultry Production by William Adams Lippincott (1921)
"Brassiness seems to appear only when fowls are allowed to be in the sun. It is
possibly a sort of sunburn. Creaminess is usually the result of oil in the ..."
3. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Naturally there also arise new vices—a new brassiness, a new foppishness—of which
prose had hardly seemed capable before ; they will appear, in due course, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1848)
"... is brassiness. Their politeness must however be equal to their assurance.
They must have that indescribable air about them which bespeaks high quality ..."
5. Women's Suffrage: The Reform Against Nature by Horace Bushnell (1869)
"... pray it—into some bright corner where yet there are true women left—women with
soft voices, shrilled by no brassiness or dinging sound of party war ! ..."
6. Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1869)
"Liked some parts, but too apt to change his voice suddenly from low to loud,
giving evidence only of the breadth and brassiness of his throat. ..."
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