brasswork
English
Etymology
Noun
brasswork (uncountable)
- 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.