brazen

brazen englannista suomeksi

1. röyhkeä

2. esiintyä muina miehinä

3. messinkinen, messinginvärinen

1. messinkinen

2. metallinen

3. rautainen

4. julkea, röyhkeä

4. Verbi

brazen englanniksi

1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass (in color or strength).

2. 1786, (w), ''Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army, from the Conquest to the Present Time'', London: Printed for S. Hooper(nb...), (w) 745209064; republished as ''Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army, from the Conquest to the Present Time'', volume II, new 2nd edition with material additions and improvements, London: Printed for Egerton (publisher)|Thomas Egerton,(nb...); & G. Kearsley,(nb...), 1801, (w) 435979550, page 262:

(smallcaps) or rather copper swords seem to have been next introduced; these in process of time, workmen learned to harden by the addition of some other metal or mineral, which rendered them almost equal in temper to iron.

3. (quote-book)|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=American Sunday-School Union,(nb...)|year=1836|pages=40–41|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cvMXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA41|oclc=135368271|passage=And (w) made a brass image of the fiery serpents, and put it up on a pole, where all the people could see it; and when any one was bitten, he could look upon the brazen serpent, and was cured.

4. (quote-journal); Partridge & Co.,(nb...)|date=2 May 1859|volume=IX|page=91|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZVBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA91|oclc=614851442|passage=The women, stout, strong, brazen-faced creatures, in most cases looked able to thrash any of the partners with whom they consorted.

5. (RQ:Burroughs Gods of Mars)

6. (quote-book)

7. Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or instruments.

8. 1697, (w); (w), transl., ''The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, (w), and Æneis. Translated into English Verse;(nb...)'', London: Printed for (w),(nb...), (w) 839376905; republished as ''The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden. In Three Volumes'', volume III, 5th edition, London: Printed by Jacob Tonson(nb...), 1721, (w) 181805247, book IX, page 822, lines 667–670:

And now the Trumpets terribly from far, / With rattling Clangor, rouze the sleepy War. / The Souldiers Shouts succeed the Brazen Sounds, / And Heav'n, from Pole to Pole, the Noise rebounds.

9. Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.

10. (quote-journal)&93;; the man-at-arms by the unarmed; the stone of the shepherd pierced the brazen defences of the warrior.

11. (quote-book)|year=2015|page=19|isbn=978-1-4725-5861-9|passage=In the autumn, when a small group of us heard him &91;(w)&93; read from ''Heracles'', his last work, I was amazed at his brazen energy. For two and a half hours without stopping, without once lowering his voice (and what a strong, brazen voice it was), barely pausing for breath for even a moment between acts, bent motionless over the table, he read – half from memory – those verses wrought in brass, looking deep into the eyes of each of his listeners in turn.

12. Shamelessly shocking and offensive; audacious; impudent; barefaced; immodest, unblushing. (defdate)

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13. (quote-book)|series=Zebra Regency Romance|location=New York, N.Y.|year=1993|isbn=978-0-8217-4073-6|passage=He looked at her for a long moment. Slowly, a smile lit in his eyes. "Never a shrew. A fighter and a brazen hussy." / Placing a finger beneath her chin, he tilted her face up. "And, I'd say, you're the only brazen hussy who blushes." / A brazen hussy. She should be offended. But the smile in his eyes, the touch of his finger moving slowly and feather-light from chin to throat and along the sensitive skin of her neck made it impossible to concentrate on rebuke.

14. (quote-av)

15. To turn a brass color.

16. (quote-journal)

17. ''Generally followed by (l) or (l)'': to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc. (defdate)

18. (quote-book)|edition=2nd enlarged|location=London|publisher=Printed by R. W. and are to be sold by Nath. Ekins,(nb...)|year=1656|page=274|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=M0g7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA274|oclc=606603002|passage=And though the word doth eat up all they can ſay, as ''Moſes'' rod did: yet they harden their hearts with ''Pharaoh'', they brazen their brows with him in the text, that ſaid ''I will not'': Nay ſaid the Iſraelites, but ''we will have a King''. on Matthew 21:29.

19. (quote-journal),(nb...); and Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell,(nb...)|month=November|year=1832|volume=XXXII|issue=CCI|page=870|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=sCU-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA870|oclc=1781863|passage=His impudence is only less than his ignorance, in referring his questioner to Milton|John Milton, in proof of the scriptural angels being celestial women. That gentleman mildly remarks, "Milton's angels are not Ladies." Instead of blushing, he brazens it out, and replies, "No—but ''some'' scriptural angels are Ladies—''I believe''"—shewing that he is as ignorant of his Bible as of Milton.

20. (RQ:Black Sabina Zembra)

21. (quote-book), (w)|year=2008|isbn=978-1-4165-4137-0|passage=The drivers of the 507s Lost Convoy knew they were in a world of deep fecal matter. Could they brazen a path through the city once more and pick up Route Blue on the other side? Or would this morning's chain of unfortunate events finally catch up with them?