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brass⋅age

[bras-ij, brah-sij]
–noun
a charge to cover the costs of coining money.

Origin:
1800–10; < F (droit de) brassage the stirring of molten metals prior to casting, equiv. to brass(er) to stir (melted metal), lit., to brew (see brasserie ) + -age -age
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