gold bronzen.adj.
/ˌɡəʊl(d) ˈbrɒnz/, U.S. /ˌɡoʊl(d) ˈbrɑnz/ A. n.
1. A metallic powder containing or resembling gold, used in paints and other decorative coatings (cf. bronze n. 4).
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > types of
lac1558
purpurin1558
colourish1598
earth1598
watercolour1598
earth colour1658
encaustic1662
lake1684
virgin tint1706
mosaic gold1746
bronze1753
gold bronze1769
cake colour1784
musive gold1796
sap-colour1816
repaint1827
moist colour1842
bronze powder1846
wax-colour1854
wax pigment1854
bitumen1855
chrome garnet1876
zinc-dust1877
zinc-powder1881
terra nera1882
earth pigment1900
1769 J. Wedgwood Brit. Patent 939 (1856) 1 My Invention for the Purpose of Ornamenting Earthen and Porcelaine Ware with an Encaustic Gold Bronze, together with a peculiar Species of Encaustic Painting in Various Colours.
1773 Caledonian Mercury 24 Feb. 1/1 Wedgwood and Bentley..are now enabled to offer..the following variety of Ornaments, viz...a new-invented encaustic gold bronze, or biscuit d'or; the gold of which is burnt in, and thereby rendered perfectly durable.
1825 Select Coll. Valuable & Curious Arts 12 Another method of preparing the gold bronze, is to precipitate the gold from its solution in nitro-muriatic acid.
1884 Sci. Amer. 5 Jan. 9/3 Method of renovating gilt frames. It consists in applying with a camel's hair pencil a gum solution to which has been added gold bronze having the color of the frame.
1999 I. Wheeler Metallic Pigments in Polymers (RAPRA Technol. Ltd) iv. 43 Both aluminium and gold bronze, and many of the other metal pigments, can react with the small quantities of hydrogen chloride released when PVC is processed.
2. A copper alloy containing or resembling gold. rare.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other copper alloys
tombac1602
blanched copper1621
orichalcum1646
cock metal1766
gold bronze1785
bidri1794
tumbaga1860
Aich's metal1861
sterro-metal1865
talmi1868
Abyssinian gold1869
delta-metal1883
Tobin bronze1891
manganin1894
Eureka1914
1785 Lady's Mag. Dec. 631/1 Each of these kings wears a beautiful glittering crown of gold bronze.
1921 Tariff Information Surv. on Articles Tariff Act 1913 (U.S. Tariff Comm. C-16) (rev. ed.) 39 The bronzes of chief importance are: Gold bronze (3-5 per cent aluminum); steel bronze (8.5 percent aluminum plus a little silicon); [etc.].
1940 Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. Dec. 373/1 Aluminum, gold bronze and nickel bronze have been used for stair rails, door sills,..and even solid doors... Some of the most important mural decorations on the ship are metal.
1977 Jrnl. Walters Art Gallery 35 79/1 Techniques of etching, inlaying, overlaying and chasing in gold, silver, brass, shibuichi (silver bronze) and shakudo (gold bronze).
B. adj.
Of a dull gold colour with a bronze or brownish tinge.
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1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 7 Her gold-bronze hair was dressed low on her neck.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 204 Gold-bronze flutters beat through the thick upper air.
2014 C. W. Cummings Cadillac V-16s Lost & Found xii. 45 The original color scheme [of the car] was black with maroon lower..panels, and gold-bronze pinstriping.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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