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.

First recorded in 1850–55

The vexatious thing in speaking of her is, that she compels to the use of the rhetorician's brass instrument.

No asking your way of the sun, when you are lost, with a little brass instrument and a morsel of pencil and paper.

The original corno basso was a brass instrument of narrow bore with the pistons set horizontally.

A faint note or two from some brass instrument was carried to them by the wind.

Others believe the vocal cords act as the lips do in playing a brass instrument.

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