brass band

noun

, Music.

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.

First recorded in 1825–35

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.

The Brass Band Contest five weeks later was a triumph in a different way.

Jimmie declared that a brass band could have done no more to locate them.

She had fifty-two invited guests aboard—the cream of the town—gentlemen and ladies, and a splendid brass band.

First a bugle was blown, then some louder instrument, and so on, till there was a whole brass band going.

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