red brass

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   brass with enough copper to give it a reddish tint; used for plumbing pipe and other brass hardware and in cheap jewelry

   Synonymsguinea gold

   Broaderbrass

Questions about red brass

What does red brass mean?

red brass means "brass with enough copper to give it a reddish tint; used for plumbing pipe and other brass hardware and in cheap jewelry".

What is another word for red brass?

Close synonyms include guinea gold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red brass a common word?

red brass is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.