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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

Clave Especial and Fuerza Regida join forces in their brassy mobster-core singles “Como Capo” and “No Pasa Nada.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025

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

Her hair shone brassy gold in the artificial light, falling loose and wild down her back.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

And the others thought hard, And trifled with their brassies and things, And could not make answer.

From Outlook Odes by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

I am a strong believer in having reserve drivers and brassies, even if one is only a very moderate golfer.

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

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

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

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

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 competing offers turned the fight for RJR Nabisco, whose brands range from Animals Crackers to Winston cigarettes, into the brassiest and potentially most damaging brawl in Wall Street history.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe