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brass instrument
noun
- a musical wind instrument of brass or other metal with a cup-shaped mouthpiece, as the trombone, tuba, French horn, trumpet, or cornet.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of brass instrument1
First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences
The vexatious thing in speaking of her is, that she compels to the use of the rhetorician's brass instrument.
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No asking your way of the sun, when you are lost, with a little brass instrument and a morsel of pencil and paper.
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The original corno basso was a brass instrument of narrow bore with the pistons set horizontally.
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A faint note or two from some brass instrument was carried to them by the wind.
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Others believe the vocal cords act as the lips do in playing a brass instrument.
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