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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

Drivers and brassies vary a little, cleeks and irons differ much, but mashies are more unlike each other than any of them.

From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry

We called these tin-plated drivers our brassies, and they were certainly an improvement on our original clubs.

From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry

I see them top and slice a shot, And fail to follow through, And with their brassies plough the lot, The very way I do.

From Just Folks by Guest, Edgar A. (Edgar Albert)

"A drive, two brassies, an approach, and forty puts, I presume?"

From Olympian Nights by Bangs, John Kendrick