bronzedadj.
/brɒnzd/ 1. Lacquered or coated with bronze or some imitation of it; having a bronze-like lustre.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [adjective] > varnished or lacquered > specific
bronzed1828
spirit varnished1860
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 270 Wings dusky, shining with bronzed-green.
c1865 G. Gore in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 233/2 The bronzed mould may now be immersed in the..solution.
2. Bronze-coloured, browned, sunburnt.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > making or becoming brown > [adjective] > making or becoming bronze > made bronze
bronzed1748
the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > tan > [adjective]
brownc1384
nut-brownc1503
weather-beaten1530
tanned1564
tan-faced1614
tan-skinned1614
brown-complexioned1704
tanninga1717
brown-skinned1745
suntanned1796
well-tanned1815
weather-bronzed1837
bronzed1842
weather-tanned1853
saddle-coloured1854
bronze-faced1896
tan1963
1748 H. Walpole Corr. (1820) I. 198 I wish you could see him making squibs..and Bronzed over with a patina of gunpowder.
1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North II. 301 The bare and bronzed Egyptian.
1865 Daily Tel. 12 June The bronzed heroes of Sherman and Grant.
3. Grown shameless, feelingless; hardened.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > shameless
shamelessc897
unshamefasta1100
unshamedc1384
unshamefulc1430
unshamousa1500
unshamefaceda1533
unshameless1555
blushless1566
brazen-faced1571
brazen1573
bashless1578
brassy1596
foreheaded16..
foreheadlessa1603
frontless1607
browless1615
basilisco-proof1649
inverecund1657
perfrict1660
brazen-broweda1682
barefaced1704
cool1723
unblushing1736
brassed1742
inerubescent1788
bald-faced1836
bronzed1841
brazen-fronted1842
brazed1884
1841 R. W. Emerson Misc. 187 The most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher.
1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in La Saisiaz & Two Poets of Croisic 114 The Doctor's bronzed throat!
4.
a. bronzed skin n. 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 n. = bronze diabetes n. at bronze n. Compounds 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [noun] > diabetes > types of
insipid diabetes1883
bronzed diabetes1898
haemochromatosis1899
bronze diabetes1901
type 11977
type 21977
1886 Hanot & Schachmann in Arch. de Physiol. Normale et Pathologique VII. 62 C'était là comme un diabète bronzé.]
1898 R. T. Williamson Diabetes Mellitus Index 411/2 Bronzed diabetes.
1909 Practitioner Feb. 194 That very rare disease called bronzed diabetes.
1966 W. A. D. Anderson Pathol. (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).
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