Other forms: bronzers
Bronzer is a powder that gives skin a sun-touched look. Sweep on bronzer.
It goes where the sun would actually reach rather than all over the face. A bronzer too orange for the skin is the commonest mistake made with it.
1nounbronzerA powder that gives skin a sun-touched look.
“A dusting of bronzer along the cheekbones was the whole of it.”
bronzer is a product.
Italian
bronzo
French
bronze
English
bronze
English, today
bronzer
From bronze + -er. bronze comes from French bronze (1511); from Italian bronzo (13th c.), of unknown origin (q.v.). First use appears 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior (for which, see citation below).
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