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Danielle Pinnock’s character, a Jamaican woman who is taken to America by a wizened older man she refers to as the “old raisin,” has a brassy boldness and bawdiness that also seduces the audience’s affections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

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

Hildy came along in a mud-colored brown suit and a black sailor skewered on to her ratted brassy pompadour with an evil-looking hatpin.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

As a rule I need a fair drive and two screaming brassies on this long fifth before I am in position to approach across the ravine.

From Torchy As A Pa by Ford, Sewell

Both used brassies and both were short of the green.

From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van

The greater elaboration of such brassies as we had seen impressed us, and we also found some trouble with our oak heads in that, being green, they were rather inclined to chip and crack.

From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry

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 Adams, Frederick Upham

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

Wearing gold lamé pants or a gauzy floor-length cape, she would introduce herself as “a shy, innocent petite flower” before revealing another, brassier side of her personality.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 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 Jenkins, Herbert George

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

Big Bill the Builder, brassiest showman out of show business, had taken the stump once more.

From Time Magazine Archive

Streisand is a showboater, a sort of one-woman Hippodrome whose roots are in the brassiest tradition of the American musical theater.

From Time Magazine Archive

She Had by the gods since time out of mind at their banquets been dreaded, Yelling with brassiest voice orders to great and to small.

From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von