Brassen

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make like or become like brass, particularly in fortitude or colour ambitransitive

    "He could possibly understand a man wishing to blacken the gray as he aged, it was only natural—to a point, and then it was not. But to brassen one's hair like a homosexual?"

Example

More examples

"He could possibly understand a man wishing to blacken the gray as he aged, it was only natural—to a point, and then it was not. But to brassen one's hair like a homosexual?"

Etymology

From brass + -en.

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