Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A variant of
brazen .
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Examples
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I have seen one "brassen foot-stove" which had the owner's cipher cut out of the sheet metal, and from the side was hung a wrought brass chain.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Not one of us carried a cricket, though Friend Poole related that he had left behind a 'seemly brassen foot-stove' full of hot coals from his hearthstone.
Songs and Other Verse Eugene Field 1872
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THeir woemen know how to make earthen vessells with special Cunninge and thac so large and fine, that our potters with lhoye wheles can make noe better: ant then Remoue them from place to place as easelye as we candoe our brassen kettles.
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