bronze
/bɹɑnz/ adjective C2- Made of bronze metal.
- Having a reddish-brown colour.
- Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
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The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat.
The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realise that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before.
“He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe.
Here were not, as in other tombs, ignoble drawers, one above another, where thrift bestows its dead and labels them like specimens in a museum; all that was visible within the bronze gates was a gloomy-looking room, separated by a wall from the vault itself.
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