brass band
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2.7
- noun
- /bræs bænd/
:
banda de metales
- During the parade, a lively brass band filled the streets with cheerful music.
- brass band music
But when that brass band next door started playing, I just lost it.
- But when that brass band next door started playing, I just lost it.
- You're walking down the street and you'll see a live brass band playing with a man break dancing to it.
- No, but, but typically they don't step off that curb until they hear the brass band.
- And then they had the what was the oh, the brass band.
- I do hope when he does have his perp walk, I do hope they play that brass band.
- A marching band from the school university, like comes through the restaurant, you know, full on brass band of the whole thing.
Examples
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During the forty years since their inception, folk brass bands have become an established part of Nepalese music.
Academic text (1991) -
Lyon's officers, trying to drown out the cacophony, ordered a brass band at the head of the column to start playing.
Academic text (2011) -
A brass band turns the corner, passes by her, playing a march.
Fiction book (2002) -
I was trying to arrange for a red carpet and a brass band.
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I was thinking, perhaps if you wanted... the three of us, we might go to the public gardens one Sunday afternoon... and we can listen to the brass band.
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But outside the Western world, a voluntary brass band is a luxury that few cultures can afford.
Academic text (1991) -
You're walking down the street and you'll see a live brass band playing with a man break dancing to it.
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At one navy sanatorium, there is a brass band of thirty military women, many of whom are middle-aged medical workers.
Academic text (1993) -
In addition to a monkey and a bear, Crescent Farm included a brass band that entertained arriving guests.
Academic text (2013) -
The procession to the courtyard begins when a brass band strikes up, accompanied by singing and shouting.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group of musicians who play brass and percussion instruments' is directly derivable from combining 'brass' (brass-family instruments) with 'band' (an ensemble of musicians); a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the compound meaning. This noun-noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and follows straightforward compositional semantics, so it is immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Brass band comes from groups of players who used only brass instruments and drums. These bright, loud groups often played in parks and parades, so the phrase now means 'a musical group that plays in public'.