high brass

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   brass with 35% zinc

   Broaderbrass

Questions about high brass

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.