BRONZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bronzed mean? 

• BRONZED (adjective)
  The adjective BRONZED has 1 sense:

1. (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun

  Familiarity information: BRONZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRONZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun

Synonyms:

bronzed; suntanned; tanned

Context example:

a young bronzed Apollo

Similar:

brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)

 Context examples 

The sweat burst through the skin of his forehead in tiny beads, and he paused and mopped his bronzed face with his handkerchief.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,—all the stigmata of passion were there.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Symptoms include hepatomegaly, arthritis, diabetes mellitus, and bronzed skin.

(Iron overload, NCI Thesaurus)

They were pretty, blue-eyed, yellow-haired lads, well made and sturdy, with bronzed skins, which spoke of a woodland life.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cabin still rang with his voice, as he stood there, swaying, his bronzed face shining, his head up and dominant, and his eyes, golden and masculine, intensely masculine and insistently soft, flashing upon Maud at the door.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the stern he saw a young bronzed god in scarlet hip-cloth dipping a flashing paddle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When he passed Penerley, where were three cottages and a barn, he reached the edge of the tree country, and found the great barren heath of Blackdown stretching in front of him, all pink with heather and bronzed with the fading ferns.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His photographs were published broadcast, and special writers exploited his strong, bronzed face, his scars, his heavy shoulders, his clear, quiet eyes, and the slight hollows in his cheeks like an ascetic's.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Her gaze rested for a moment on the muscular neck, heavy corded, almost bull-like, bronzed by the sun, spilling over with rugged health and strength.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She repressed a smile at sight of the red line that marked the chafe of the collar against the bronzed neck.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)