bronze
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bronze/brɒnz/
▶noun
- 1 a yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin.
- 2 a yellowish-brown colour.
- 3 a work of sculpture or other object made of bronze.
- 1 give a bronze surface to.
- 2 make suntanned.
– derivatives
bronzy adjective.
bronzy adjective.
– origin C17 (as v.): from Fr. bronze (n.), bronzer (v.), from Ital. bronzo, prob. from Pers. birinj ‘brass’.
'bronze' also found in these Oxford entries:
Addison's disease
- aluminium bronze
- Beaker folk
- bell metal
- billon
- bream
- Bronze Age
- bronze medal
- bronzewing
- cire perdue
- copper
- Cycladic
- Dark Ages
- follis
- gamelan
- gunmetal
- Hallstatt
- Helladic
- Homeric
- Iron Age
- lunula
- lur
- marcasite
- minim
- Minoan
- Mycenaean
- nuragh
- patina
- penny
- pentlandite
- phosphor bronze
- pyrope
- Stone Age
- tripod
- verd-antique
- vermeil
