brasswork
nounEtymology From brass + -work.
1
Work or ornamentation made of brass.
- The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, / And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound.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 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.1960 March 23, “Notes and News: Two Scenes from Norfolk”, in Railway Magazine, page 214: