Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of giving a bronze-like surface to metals, plaster, wood, and other substances.
  • noun A metallic color or iridescent appearance as of bronze.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.
  • noun A material for bronzing.

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  • verb Present participle of bronze.

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Examples

  • A café in Nice, where bronzing is in, boredom is out.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • A café in Nice, where bronzing is in, boredom is out.

    embêter - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • A café in Nice, where bronzing is in, boredom is out.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • The effect, commonly called bronzing, is almost like a solarization of the image.

    Imaging Resource What's New 2010

  • The effect, commonly called bronzing, is almost like a solarization of the image.

    Imaging Resource What's New 2010

  • The effect, commonly called bronzing, is almost like a solarization of the image.

    Imaging Resource What's New 2010

  • You needed to tweak them, or create your own profiles, to get the best possible prints, but there were still some issues, such as bronzing, that caused some people to dismiss the iPF5000.

    Macworld 2009

  • You needed to tweak them, or create your own profiles, to get the best possible prints, but there were still some issues, such as bronzing, that caused some people to dismiss the iPF5000.

    Macworld 2009

  • She brushes my entire face with foundation and bronzing powder, sweeps a light pink eye shadow over my lids, plucks a few rogue hairs from between my eyebrows and my chin, and colors my lips with a subtle gloss.

    Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

  • No, I was denied their stage, their Jolly Rancher candy colored lights, their bronzing lotions, their mustachioed esprit de corps.

    The Widow Teasdale and the Ineffable Warmth of Personal Services Drew Jackson 2011

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