brazen

Made of brass.archaic

• Brazen 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.

Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.figuratively

• The women, stout, strong, brazen-faced creatures, in most cases looked able to thrash any of the partners with whom they consorted.
• Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure.

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

• 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.

Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.archaic

• The giant [Goliath] was thus conquered by the youth [David]; the man-at-arms by the unarmed; the stone of the shepherd pierced the brazen defences of the warrior.

Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash.

• She was brazen enough to deny stealing the handbag even though she was caught on camera doing so.

To turn a brass color.intransitive

• [...] the meadows roughen, grow gutteral / with goldenrod, milkweed's late-summer lilac, / cat-tails, the wild lily brazening, / dooryards overflowing in late, rough-headed bloom: [...]

Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc.transitive

• Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram; but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.