Definition of "bronze"

bronze

/bɹɒnz/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural bronzes
1. (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
2. (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
3. (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
4. A bronze medal.
5. Boldness; impudence.
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  Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.
  1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd
adjective
comparative more bronze, superlative most bronze
1. Made of bronze metal.
  Quotations
  The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
  1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
2. Having a reddish-brown colour.
3. (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
  Quotations
  That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.
  2016, Kit Moulton, Annabella, page 108
verb
third-person singular simple present bronzes, present participle bronzing, simple past and past participle bronzed
1. (transitive) To plate with bronze.
2. (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
  Quotations
  The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.
  1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy‎, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137
  North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.
  1961, Freya Stark, chapter 8, in Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 122
3. (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
  Quotations
  His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
  2006, Melissa Lassor, “Out of Darkness”, in Watching Time, page 124
4. (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
  Quotations
  the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead
  1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […]

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