"brass" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "brass" to refer to a reddish-yellow alloy of copper and zinc (e.g. "The doorknob was made of brass.") or to describe something as brassy (e.g. "She has a brassy, outgoing personality."). Example sentence: "The buttons on the coat were made of brass."
Its magic lay in its marriage of brass and piano, of rasping percussion, of the warmth of Ferrer's voice.
Now she asserted her constitutional right to take over the running of the country, and got the military top brass – themselves concerned with the direction Malawi was taking – to support her. Banda's inauguration as president in April 2012 was a turning point for Malawi.
The huge wind and brass sections steal the foreground from the habitually warmer sonority of the strings, and the percussion section dominates over everything.
Higgins made his own gesture when he bowed his head at the memorial brass in Westminster Abbey to Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the Queen's second cousin, who was assassinated by the IRA in 1979.
It's no longer seen as the province of professors in studies with brass telescopes".
It's an affecting collage of images and sounds including rallies, brass bands, police battles and footage of Test Dept's own 1984 tour in support of the miners.
He was mingling again with the Conservative top brass this week at their 2014 summer fundraiser, this time at the Hurlingham private members' club in west London, where a bottle of champagne signed by Thatcher was auctioned for £45,000.
Rick Santorum's Anti-Abortion Politics Would Have Killed His Own Wife – Jezebel Let's get down to brass tacks: Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Personhood Pledge-signing, Griswold vs Connecticut-opposing, Mr Ban Abortion in All Circumstances With No Exception for the Life of the Mother, believes that the actions of his own wife should be treated as criminal.
A modern club should be a collective effort in which the contribution of everyone involved matters, and everyone is working towards the same aims – not running their own agendas and going missing when on a losing streak, which seems to be the case with many top brass.
It hosts country, ceilidh and brass bands on the weekends.
It took the joyous irreverence of Wendy Cope's "Waste Land Limericks" – Iain yelped with laughter when I recited them to him – to give me the brass neck to attempt "A Fertile Sea", my own impertinent response to Eliot's masterwork.
