brasswork

brasswork

English

Etymology

From brass +‎ -work.

Noun

brasswork (uncountable)

  1. Work or ornamentation made of brass.
    • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
      The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, / And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound.
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • 1960 March, “Notes and News: Two Scenes from Norfolk”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:
      The locomotive had been magnificently burnished at Norwich depot, with polished brasswork and red-painted coupling rods—all the more creditable, Dr. Allen adds, as it spent many months last winter in open store.
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