Bronzed vs Browzed - What's the difference?
bronzed | browzed |
(bronze)
(uncountable) A natural or man-made alloy of copper, usually of tin, but also with one or more other metals.
(countable, and, uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
(countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
A bronze medal.
Boldness; impudence; brass.
* Alexander Pope
Made of bronze metal.
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*:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
Having a reddish-brown colour.
(lb) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
To plate with bronze.
To color bronze.
(of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
* 2006 , Melissa Lassor, "Out of Darkness", page 124 in Watching Time
To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
* Sir Walter Scott
(browze)
* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, title=The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, chapter=, edition=
, passage=How much more great and solemn on this Occasion is that which follows in our English Poet, --And in their Palaces Where Luxury late reign'd, Sea-Monsters whelp'd And stabled-- than that in Ovid, where we are told that the Sea-Calfs lay in those Places where the Goats were used to browze ? }}
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Anna Green Winslow, title=Diary of Anna Green Winslow, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A drol gentleman passing by with a bit of chalk in his hand underwrote thus-- O cruel death! more subtle than a Fox That would not let this Calf become an Ox, That he might browze among the briers & thorns And with his brethren wear, Horns. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Max Brand, title=Alcatraz, chapter=, edition=
, passage=More than that, he saw a group of fat cattle browzing , and just beyond were horses in a pasture. }}
As verbs the difference between bronzed and browzed
is that bronzed is past tense of bronze while browzed is past tense of browze.bronzed
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(head)bronze
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(wikipedia bronze)Noun
- Embrown'd with native bronze , lo! Henley stands.
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
(terms derived from bronze) * arsenical bronze * bell bronze * Bronze Age * bronze medal * Bronze Star * bronzite * phosphor bronzeVerb
(bronz)- My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
- His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
- the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead
See also
* Brindisi * Cycladic * Hallstatt * Helladic * Minoan * penny *Anagrams
* ----browzed
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(head)browze
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