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n. (brass band English)
Usage examples of "brass bands".
A colonel with the sonorous title of Director of Materials and Supplies Control had met her at a party and pirated her away from Cincpac- Martial law now ruled the territory, and under the jolly surface of Honolulu-the leis, the brass bands, the luaus, and the beautiful scenery-there was a cold tough dictatorship.
The brass bands played their dark savage music as they marched by, the torches blazing.
The plumed hearse, the dirge-breathing brass bands, the closed marts of business, the flags drooping at half mast, the long, plodding procession of uniformed secret societies, military battalions and fire companies, draped engines, carriages of officials, and citizens in vehicles and on foot, attracted multitudes of spectators to the sidewalks, roofs and windows.