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bronze

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bronze
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bronze1 /brɒnz $ brɑːnz/ noun
 Date: 1700-1800
 Language: French
 Origin: Italian bronzo, perhaps from Persian birinj 'copper'
1. [uncountable] a hard metal that is a mixture of copper and tin:
    a bell cast in bronze
2. [uncountable] the dark reddish brown colour of bronze
3. [countable] a work of art such as a statue (=model of a person), made of bronze:
    three bronzes by Giacometti
4. [uncountable and countable] a bronze medal:
    King won a bronze in the 100-metres.

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bronze2 adjective
1. made of bronze:
    a bronze statuette
2. having the dark reddish brown colour of bronze