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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bronzed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ashton was leaning, thick bronzed arms folded, against the edge of the doorway.
▪ Consider the case of the stereotypical Californian - tall, fit, bronzed, driving carefree down the freeway.
▪ Handsomely rugged, bronzed, not drawn into lines of exasperation but smiling - a kind, caring man who loved her.
▪ She felt too, as she mopped the trickling water from it, the smooth bronzed skin of the leg.
▪ She stared at his throat, hypnotised by the pulse beating beneath the bronzed skin.
▪ Three large bronzed fans whirred above in the smoky air.
▪ Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed, athletic man with a steady gaze, manly features and narrow hips.
▪ Zitney lay beside her, his firm, lean shoulder in the air, the sheet tangled negligently around his bronzed arm.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bronzed

Bronze \Bronze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bronzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bronzing.] [Cf. F. bronzer. See Bronze, n.]

  1. 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.

    The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger.
    --W. Black.

  2. To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

    The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead.
    --Sir W. Scott.

    Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.

Wiktionary
bronzed

vb. (en-past of: bronze)

WordNet
bronzed

adj. (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun; "a young bronzed Apollo" [syn: browned, suntanned, tanned]

Usage examples of "bronzed".

Sometimes bronzed glass clad a second storey of cement, since naked cement was aggressive and the desired image was candid, transparent, user-friendly.

At the intersection of its low wings arose a stubby bronzed glass tower where Racine would usually be roosting if he weren’t in hospital.

But presently he saw his master stop and sniff the air and listen, and then little Nkima dropped silently to a great bronzed shoulder.

The sight of the tall, bronzed white, with the little monkey perched upon his shoulder, striding through the gate into the village, brought a horde of blacks jabbering and chattering about him.

It seemed inevitable that at the next moment she would see a bronzed giant swing down through the foliage to clasp her in his arms.

He saw them roll upon the ground together as lashing talons sought to reach the bronzed hide of the man-thing.

He was very brave and truculent, for the sanctuary of a bronzed shoulder was always near.

Sborov had never seen a man such as this, a bronzed giant, almost naked.

He remonstrated with the bronzed savage that was carrying him, but he might as well have sought conversation with the Sphinx.

A tall, bronzed man alighted from The Chief in the railroad station at Los Angeles.

A smooth, bronzed arm slipped quickly about the king's neck and tightened.

For a moment Thoar and Tar-gash hesitated, eyeing each other suspiciously, and then the bronzed warrior walked over to assist Tarzan and presently Tar-gash joined them.

The noonday sun shone down upon her light, bronzed skin, glistening from the naked contours of a perfect shoulder and imparting golden glint to her hair that was sometimes a lustrous brown and again a copper bronze.

The bullet came close enough to Doc's bronzed features that he felt the cold stir of air.

His bronzed form would flash around a corner - and all trace would be gone when the Mayans reached the spot.