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bronzed, ppl. a.|brɒnzd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Lacquered or coated with bronze or some imitation of it; having a bronze-like lustre.
1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 270 Wings dusky, shining with bronzed-green. c1865G. Gore in Circ. Sc. I. 233/2 The bronzed mould may now be immersed in the..solution.
2. Bronze-coloured, browned, sunburnt.
1748H. Walpole Corr. (1820) I. 198, I wish you could see him making squibs..and Bronzed over with a patina of gunpowder. 1847J. Wilson Recr. Chr. North (1857) II. 25 The bare and bronzed Egyptian. 1865Daily Tel. 12 June, The bronzed heroes of Sherman and Grant.
3. Grown shameless, feelingless; hardened.
1841Emerson Misc. 187 The most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 114 The Doctor's bronzed throat!
4. a. bronzed skin, an incurable structural disease of the supra-renal capsules, usually characterized by discolouration of the skin to a dusky brown, smoky, or olive tint, with progressive loss of strength; supra-renal melasma, or Addison's disease.
b. bronzed diabetes = bronze diabetes.
[1886Hanot & Schachmann in Arch. de Physiol. Normale et Pathologique VII. 62 C'était là comme un diabète bronzé.] 1898R. T. Williamson Diabetes Mellitus 411/2 (Index) Bronzed diabetes. 1909Practitioner Feb. 194 That very rare disease called bronzed diabetes. 1966W. A. D. Anderson Path. (ed. 5) I. iii. 70/2 Hemochromatosis is a rare disease of iron-pigment metabolism..characterized clinically by cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes mellitus, and skin pigmentation (bronzed diabetes). |