Brass-bound

adjective

having a frame or reinforcements strengthened or made rigid by brass, bronze, etc., as a trunk or chest.

rigid; inflexible: brassbound regulations.

impudent; brazen: brassbound presumption.

Origin:
1900–05; brass + -bound¹

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brassbound (ˈbrɑːsˌbaʊnd)

—*adj*
	inflexibly entrenched: brassbound traditions

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