bronze

(countable) bronze (work of art made of bronze), bronze medal

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bronze c (singular definite bronzen, plural indefinite bronzer)

bronzen (definite singular)
bronzer (indefinite plural)
bronze (indefinite nominative singular)
bronzen (definite nominative singular)
bronzer (indefinite nominative plural)
bronzerne (definite nominative plural)
bronzes (genitive indefinite singular)
bronzens (definite genitive singular)
bronzers (genitive indefinite plural)
bronzernes (definite genitive plural)


bronze

How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.

1720, Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, page 339:

Coordinate term: brass

(uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.

bronze:

(countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.

(countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.

She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.

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, →OCLC:

en-noun

bronze (countable and uncountable, plural bronzes)

From French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.), of uncertain origin; see it for more. First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior. See cite below.

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bronze

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, →OCLC:

That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.

(of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.

en-adj

bronze (comparative more bronze, superlative most bronze)

more bronze (comparative)
most bronze (superlative)

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tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun

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bronze

My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.

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:

(transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.

His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.

2006, Melissa Lassor, “Out of Darkness”, in Watching Time, page 124:

(intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.

the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead

1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

en-verb

bronze (third-person singular simple present bronzes, present participle bronzing, simple past and past participle bronzed)

bronzes (present singular third-person)
bronzing (participle present)
bronzed (participle past)
bronzed (past)

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bronze

→ Danish: bronze

→ Greenlandic: bronze

→ English: bronze

→ Norwegian: bronse

→ Persian: برنز (boronz)

→ Portuguese: bronze


bronze

first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

inflection of bronzer:
second-person singular imperative


bronze

Borrowed from Danish bronze; see English bronze etymology.


bronze

bronze (a naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper)

Borrowed from French bronze, from Italian bronzo, either from Byzantine Greek βροντησίον (brontēsíon), presumably from Βρεντήσιον (Brentḗsion, “Brindisi”), known for the manufacture of bronze; or ultimately from Persian برنج (berenj, beranj, “brass”) ~ پرنگ (pereng, “copper”).