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brass band
noun
, Music.
- a band made up principally of brass wind instruments.
brass band
brass band
- A musical group composed of brass and percussion instruments. Sometimes called marching bands, brass bands often play at athletic events and military exercises and in parades.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of brass band1
First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences
There was a brass band in one part of the grounds, and a string band in another, where the young people danced under the trees.
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The Brass Band Contest five weeks later was a triumph in a different way.
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Jimmie declared that a brass band could have done no more to locate them.
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She had fifty-two invited guests aboard—the cream of the town—gentlemen and ladies, and a splendid brass band.
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First a bugle was blown, then some louder instrument, and so on, till there was a whole brass band going.
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