All 5 Uses of
bronze
in
Dune
- The hall door opened and his mother peered in, hair like shaded bronze held with a black ribbon at the crown, her oval face emotionless and green eyes staring solemnly.
Book 1 *bronze = reddish-brown or yellowish-brown
- A skinny girl with hair the color of bronze, her body tortured by the winds of puberty, had entered the study of the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Proctor Superior of the Bene Gesserit school on Wallach IX.
Book 1
- The face was oval under a cap of hair the color of polished bronze.
Book 1
- She wore no jewelry and had chosen warm colors—a long dress almost the shade of the open blaze, and an earth-brown band around her bronzed hair.
Book 1bronzed = yellowish-brown
- Her oval face had new lines in it at the corners of the mouth, but the hair was still like polished bronze.
Book 3bronze = reddish-brown or yellowish-brown
Definition:
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(bronze as in: a bronze tan) a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown color like that of one of the metals with the same name -- often used to refer to a suntan or a dark glowing complexion