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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

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

Before she met Felber, Dunham was mulling tapping into her experience of spending extended periods in England for work and the culture clash of a brassy American coming to the U.K.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

Becoming essential to música Mexicana in the 1940s, this brassy woodwind instrument allowed bandas to put more emphasis on the melody.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

Then he lifted his voice in a wild brassy blare that set echoes clamoring in the draws and canyons for miles around.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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 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 Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

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 Harry Vardon

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

From Olympian Nights by John Kendrick Bangs

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

As a host, Ratajkowski has a gentler presence than the brassier personalities — Cooper, Joe Rogan, Dax Shepard — that currently rule the podcast charts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 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

As a 1959 Broadway show, it was already an anachronism, surrounded by the brassier, more urgent West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiorello!

From Time ● Mar. 2, 2015

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

The visiting correspondent was the heftiest and one of the brassiest women of the Washington press corps, and she covered Germany like a rough-riding Valkyrie.

From Time Magazine Archive

American's George Washington Hill, the brassiest to-baccoon of all time, dreamed up the slogan "It's toasted" for Lucky Strike—even though all tobacco went through the same toasting process.

From Time Magazine Archive

One day, a woman came to the Grey One, and in the lightest, brassiest way, asked to be congratulated on her engagement, mentioning the man whose attentions Marguerite had accepted as a heavenly dispensation.

From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort