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Brassbound

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Banded or trimmed with brass or a similar metal, such as bronze.

adj. Inflexible; rigid: brassbound party loyalists.

adj. Bold and impudent; brazen.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Bound with brass.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. inflexibly entrenched.

adj. having trim or fittings of brass.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having trim or fittings of brass

adj. inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable

Word Usage

"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."

Equivalent

bound inflexible brass-bound

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ironclad unchangeable

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