All 3 Uses of
bronze
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- He was a gentlemanly man, with full and distinctly outlined Roman features, the prominences of which glowed in the sun with a bronze-like richness of tone.
Chpt 10-12 *bronze = reddish-brown or yellowish-brown
- Boldwood went meditating down the slopes with his eyes on his boots, which the yellow pollen from the buttercups had bronzed in artistic gradations.
Chpt 19-21bronzed = made yellowish-brown in color
- She returned silent and weak denials to his charges, and swayed her head desperately, as if to thrust away the words as they came showering about her ears from the lips of the trembling man in the climax of life, with his bronzed Roman face and fine frame.
Chpt 31-33bronzed = suntanned
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