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Bronze

noun

An alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin.

A sculpture made of bronze.

verb

(past & past part. bronzed; pres. part. bronzing)

Give the color and appearance of bronze to something.

Get a tan, from wind or sun. Synonym: tan.

adjective

Of the color of bronze. Synonym: bronzy.

Made from or consisting of bronze.

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"Bronze" Quotes from Famous Books

... table-cloth,—the hangings and colouring of the apartment were softly harmonious. The walls were hung with fine engravings, with here and there a brilliant little water-colour of the school of Corot; a few marble and bronze statuettes were scattered about on the mantelpiece and on brackets. There was nothing particularly striking anywhere, yet there was nothing on which the eye could ...

— Berenice • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... one of the first places I went to visit was the great bronze idol of Kamakura, which is but eighteen miles from Yokohama. It is about fifty feet high, and it is called the "Great Buddha" or "Diabutsa." It is a thousand years old and a horrible looking affair. I went up into the hollow ...

— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols

... estate; the Gobelin tapestry, the gold-framed pictures; the convenience of elegant furniture, and the artificial delicacies of the table on silver-plate.' Assisted by the patronage of the prince, he established a great foundry in his native town, of ball and cannon, bronze and brass; and on his marriage with the aforesaid Christiane, the sovereign made him a handsome present, in a handsome manner, 'as a small token of his gratitude to a family that had been ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 - Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 • Various

... smoking-room of the Adolph Woermann was a bronze bust of Mr. Woermann presented by himself. Whether he meant to perpetuate his own memory is not vital to the story. The amusing feature lies in the fact that some irreverent passenger, whose soul was dead to the sacredness of art, ...

— In Africa - Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country • John T. McCutcheon

... 'the children that flit overhead, the little Loves, like the young nightingales upon the budding trees,' which flit round the dead Adonis in the fifteenth idyl. They are the birds that shun the boy fowler, in Bion's poem, and perch uncalled (as in a bronze in the Uffizi) on the grown man. In one or other of the sixteen Pompeian pictures of Venus and Adonis, the Loves are breaking their bows and arrows for grief, as ...

— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang

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