brassey
Americannoun
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brasseys
plural
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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 John Kendrick Bangs
And the way I tried was by adding, as soon as I went South, inches—to the number of six—to my wooden clubs, both driver and brassey.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson
That’s hazard enough for me and it took the best work I could do with my brassey to get around it.”
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 John Kendrick Bangs
Her brother and her brassey were the only things she loved.
From The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Jeremy took up his brassey and addressed an imaginary ball.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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