What does high brass mean?

high brass means "brass with 35% zinc".

Is high brass a common word?

high brass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

High brass — meaning and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
brass with 35% zinc
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What does high brass mean?: high brass means "brass with 35% zinc".
Is high brass a common word?: high brass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for high brass come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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