Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bronze formerly much employed for cannon, especially for light field-artillery. It is now nearly supplanted by steel. See
bronze .
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Examples
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What made this pas de deux so vivid, besides the extraordinary, ice-green lighting of Jennifer Tipton, especially on the female dancer's gun-metal gray tunic by Santo Loquasto, was the grand yet throwaway dancing of Gillian Murphy: Imagine a Valkyrie on a romp.
ABT's City Center Season Worked Best With Ballet Robert Greskovic 2011
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Then I began to get (very) short stories printed in school magazines and I'd sit in my dad's study and do pretend typing on his gun-metal gray portable typewriter until I jammed the keys so badly, one time, that I was banned from that activity!
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The glass and gun-metal office blocks were set well apart from each other, separated by artificial lakes and forested traffic islands where a latter-day Crusoe could have found comfortable refuge.
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She couldn't see the barge of gun-metal clouds, the lifeless fire ants under her feet, or that it was time to go home.
Prairie Rose David Woodruff 2011
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That exquisite plate, with its intense meat flavors mingling with the iodine gun-metal taste of the oysters, was served at a recent weeklong event held at the Loft Project www.theloftproject.co.uk in East London—an experimental space regularly taken over by visiting chefs to strut their stuff.
A New Movement as British as Roast Beef Bruce Palling 2011
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His original title was "Pale Blue and Green," a rather gentle description for the bleak industrial wasteland that serves not so much as the story's backdrop as its foreground: a depopulated landscape of rusted red, sulfurous yellow, gun-metal gray and sterile white.
Start September With Superior Cinema Steve Dollar 2011
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France began to fly its gun-metal grey C-160 Transall transport aircraft into the cramped Dushanbe airport situated on the near edge of the sleepy, fragile Tajik capital with the proviso that it help renovate the dilapidated facility.
Derek Flood: From Totalitarianism to Turbines: The Unending Struggle for Power in Central Asia 2010
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Color levels are perfect; the film jumps between warm reds and oranges, gun-metal blues and whites, and sickly Romulan greens without missing a beat.
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He wears gun-metal glasses and dark, well-tailored suits.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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I know it's morning because the gray glop on the gun-metal aluminum tray slid under the door is oatmeal.
Jimmy Row 2010
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