horse brass

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horse brass (plural horse brasses)

  1. A brass plaque used to decorate horse harness gear.
    • 1945, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Animal Farm‎[1]:
      The animals decided unanimously to create a military decoration, "Animal Hero, First Class," which was conferred there and then on Snowball and Boxer. It consisted of a brass medal (they were really some old horse-brasses which had been found in the harness-room), to be worn on Sundays and holidays.
    • 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, New York: Gallery Books, 2014, Chapter 14, [2]
      The pub combined all the traditional English qualities of horse brasses, Formica and surliness.
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