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gold bronze

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noun

  1. an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.


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The IOC retrospectively awarded gold, bronze and silver to athletes based on their rankings.

From The Guardian Jun. 25, 2012

Depending on the degree of baking, the coated steel turns black, gold, bronze, purple, blue, red or green, the color becoming an integral part of the surface.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therewith she went down into the cave to look for the safest hiding places, while Ulysses brought up all the treasure of gold, bronze, and good clothing which the Phaeacians had given him.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel

Objects of gold, bronze, glass, ivory, amber, clay, and bone were also used as ornaments.

From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Its whole course was dazzlingly lighted with chandeliers of gold bronze and crystal that forever quivered, glittered, and tinkled to the tremor of the boat's swift advance.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

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