The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bronzed skin disease
Bronze \Bronze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bronzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bronzing.] [Cf. F. bronzer. See Bronze, n.]
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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.
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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 skin disease
n. (context dated English) Addison's disease