"brassen" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From brass + -en.",
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      "form": "brassens",
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      "form": "brassening",
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          "ref": "2004, Tom Morrisey, Deep Blue, page 290",
          "text": "He could possibly understand a man wishing to blacken the gray as he aged, it was only natural—to a point, and then it was not. But to brassen one's hair like a homosexual?",
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          "text": "'You seem disappointed, was I supposed to brassen up. I thought this was other biz, not a shag call.'",
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        "To make like or become like brass, particularly in fortitude or colour"
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To make like or become like brass, particularly in fortitude or colour"
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