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brass

mastery

UK /bɹɑːs/ US /bɹæs/nounadjverb

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Which meaning of 'brass' best fits the sentence?

I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]