All 8 Uses of
bronze
in
Gone with the Wind
- She might have been any age from thirty to sixty, so unlined was her immobile bronze face.
Chpt 1.4 *bronze = suntanned
- He was bronzed and lean now, where he had once been fair and slender, and the long golden mustache drooping about his mouth, cavalry style, was the last touch needed to make him the perfect picture of a soldier.
Chpt 2.15
- The air was oppressive even in the early morning hour, hot with the scorching promise of a noon of glaring blue sky and pitiless bronze sun.
Chpt 3.20bronze = shining yellow
- Her faded calico dress was open to the waist and her large bronze breast exposed.
Chpt 3.24bronze = reddish-brown
- This was all a dream, this smoke-filled dim room, the scrawny girls, Mammy shapeless and huge crouching beside the bed, Dilcey a still bronze image with the sleeping pink morsel against her dark breast—all a dream from which she would awake, to smell bacon frying in the kitchen, hear the throaty laughter of the negroes and the creaking of wagons fieldward bound, and Ellen's gentle insistent hand upon her.
Chpt 3.24
- The bronze giantess did not grin pleasedly or squirm under praise like the other negroes.
Chpt 3.26
- Dilcey looked up, her bronzed face harassed.
Chpt 3.27bronzed = suntanned
- Melanie begged Mammy to leave her enough velvet scraps to recover the frame of her battered bonnet and brought shouts of laughter when she said the old rooster was going to part with his gorgeous bronze and green-black tail feathers unless he took to the swamp immediately.
Chpt 4.32bronze = reddish-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