Lexicon:Modern/braswy
| braswy | |
|---|---|
| Stage | Modern CLT |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɾaswɪ/ |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Etymology | from Middle brasu |
braswy — brass; the warm, golden metal used in fine clockwork, instruments, and symbols of status.
Notes
Copper worked with zinc ore, made in every city and made best in Forgegate. Plates, housings, cases, dials, instrument faces, lamp fittings and the visible half of every mechanism in the Known World.
It is soft, so it does not do the work. A Forgegate movement is stilwy gears inside a braswy case, and the part everyone admires is the part that turns nothing. Where braswy does earn its place is in bearings, which wear well against steel and want less Kravoe, and at sea, where a whole instrument is built of it because a steel gear in salt air seizes and a brass one does not.