bronzed, ppl. a.
(brɒnzd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Lacquered or coated with bronze or some imitation of it; having a bronze-like lustre.
| 1828 Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 270 Wings dusky, shining with bronzed-green. c 1865 G. Gore in Circ. Sc. I. 233/2 The bronzed mould may now be immersed in the..solution. |
2. Bronze-coloured, browned, sunburnt.
| 1748 H. Walpole Corr. (1820) I. 198, I wish you could see him making squibs..and Bronzed over with a patina of gunpowder. 1847 J. Wilson Recr. Chr. North (1857) II. 25 The bare and bronzed Egyptian. 1865 Daily Tel. 12 June, The bronzed heroes of Sherman and Grant. |
3. Grown shameless, feelingless; hardened.
| 1841 Emerson Misc. 187 The most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher. 1878 Browning Poets Croisic 114 The Doctor's bronzed throat! |
4. a. bronzed skin, an incurable structural disease of the supra-renal capsules, usually characterized by discolouration of the skin to a dusky brown, smoky, or olive tint, with progressive loss of strength; supra-renal melasma, or Addison's disease.
b. bronzed diabetes = bronze diabetes.
| [1886 Hanot & Schachmann in Arch. de Physiol. Normale et Pathologique VII. 62 C'était là comme un diabète bronzé.] 1898 R. T. Williamson Diabetes Mellitus 411/2 (Index) Bronzed diabetes. 1909 Practitioner Feb. 194 That very rare disease called bronzed diabetes. 1966 W. A. D. Anderson Path. (ed. 5) I. iii. 70/2 Hemochromatosis is a rare disease of iron-pigment metabolism..characterized clinically by cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes mellitus, and skin pigmentation (bronzed diabetes). |