The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
1925, (w), w:Porgy (novel)|Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137, https://archive.org/details/porgy031341mbp
The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.
1961, (w), Dust in the Lions Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946'', New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Chapter 8, p. 122,
North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.
puhekieltä To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
2006, Melissa Lassor, "Out of Darkness", page 124 in Watching Time
His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.