brassey
Americannoun
plural
brasseysExample Sentences
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Again I swung my red-flagged brassey in front of the angry creature’s face and what I had hoped for followed.
From Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder by Bangs, John Kendrick
This reference to the far greater importance, in those days, of the brassey reminds me of a queer notion that Johnny Laidlay had.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
Hurly of creduma therefore comes curiously near the quite modern brassey.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry
Her brother and her brassey were the only things she loved.
From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Jeremy took up his brassey and addressed an imaginary ball.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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