brasswork

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, / And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound."
"The locomotive had been magnificently burnished at Norwich depot, with polished brasswork and red-painted coupling rods—all the more creditable, Dr. Allen adds, as it spent many months last winter in open store."

From brass + -work.

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