brassware
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of brassware
Example Sentences
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At its peak, in the mid-1700s, Bristol’s merchants profited from a thriving triangular trade, exporting brassware and woolen cloth to the Guinea coast, now West Africa, where they bartered it for human cargo.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2020
Native Americans refashioned European brassware into arrow points and turned axes used for chopping wood into weapons.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Its guests felt cushioned and cocooned in objects, lapped in the carpets and thick soundless upholstery, protected by the military glitter of brassware.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trademark touches include blending gold and silver together for an effect that echoes the inlaid brassware found in Middle Eastern bazaars, and echoing the calligraphy used for Koranic verses and Arabic poetry.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are telephones all over the walls and the song booster's voice pops out over the salted-peanut section, over the safety-pin and brassware section.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
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