Definition of Bronze

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Bronze

An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.

A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

Boldness; impudence; "brass."

To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.

To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

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Bronze Quotations

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
Aeschylus

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.
William John Wills

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
Fanny Kemble

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.
Henry Bessemer

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
Robert Klein

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.
Piers Corbyn

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
Macy Gray

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
Damon Runyon

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Bronze Translations

bronze in Dutch is bronzen
bronze in French is bronze
bronze in Italian is bronzo
bronze in Latin is pyropus
bronze in Norwegian is bronse
bronze in Spanish is bronce
bronze in Swedish is brons

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