brassbound

[ UK /bɹˈɑːsba‍ʊnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having trim or fittings of brass
    the heavy brassbound door
    a brassbound campaign chest
  2. inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable
    brassbound traditions
    brassbound party loyalists
    an ironclad rule
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How To Use brassbound In A Sentence

  • And how about my father's Graflex that I had never used, and my baby clothes in the brassbound trunk and the files full of dead people's passport photos? Earthly Possessions
  • A small dressing room had been fitted with wardrobes, but it was on the ornamental brassbound chest that Felicia had placed the carefully folded harem outfit. Falcon's Prey
  • Is there, or is there not, a brassbound plot to lead a chthonic jihad against those who oppose Mr. Livingston, organized through the years by what I call recalcitrant bludgers? White Mob Disrupts Black Meeting
  • a brassbound campaign chest
  • brassbound traditions
  • He had hit Sharpe with the heavy brassbound butt of a musket and he was amazed that Sharpe's skull was not broken. Sharpe's Fortress
  • brassbound party loyalists
  • The older sister had obtained a thick brassbound staff, her own height in length. Conan the Fearless
  • Rachel, on her knees before the brassbound trunk containing her cousin's clothes, gave her own sigh as she took out the white silk dress and stood up with the gleaming folds over her arm. Dearly Beloved
  • Two heavily muscled guards bowed, along with twenty others nearby, before pulling open the tall, brassbound doors leading to an arcaded passageway. Temple of the Winds
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