Bronzer vs Bronzed - What's the difference?
bronzer | bronzed |
A cosmetic product intended to give the skin a temporary bronzed colour resembling a suntan.
* 1981 , Mario Badescu, Mario Badescu's Skin Care Program for Men
* 1984 , Toni Stabile, Everything you want to know about cosmetics
(rare) (bronze)
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(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
As a noun bronzer
is a cosmetic product intended to give the skin a temporary bronzed colour resembling a suntan.As an adjective bronzer
is (rare) (bronze).As a verb bronzed is
(bronze).bronzer
English
Noun
(en noun)- Bronzers , you see, contain alcohol, which can't help but be drying to the skin.
- Some men were turning up with their faces covered with "bronzers " that made them look jaundiced, mottled terra cotta, or muddy brown.
Adjective
(head)bronzed
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Verb
(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