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bra⋅zen

  [brey-zuhn]
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–adjective
1. shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
2. made of brass.
3. like brass, as in sound, color, or strength.
–verb (used with object)
4. to make brazen or bold.
—Verb phrase
5. brazen out or through, to face boldly or shamelessly: He prefers to brazen it out rather than admit defeat.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME brasen (adj.), OE bræsen of brass

Related forms:
bra⋅zen⋅ly, adverb
bra⋅zen⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1, 3. brassy. 1. insolent, defiant. See bold.
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bra·zen   (brā'zən)   
adj.  

  1. Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity. See Synonyms at shameless.

  2. Having a loud, usually harsh, resonant sound: "sudden brazen clashes of the soldiers' band" (James Joyce).

  3. Made of brass.

  4. Resembling brass, as in color or strength.

tr.v.   bra·zened, bra·zen·ing, bra·zens
To face or undergo with bold self-assurance: brazened out the crisis.

[Middle English brasen, made of brass, from Old English bræsen, from bræs, brass.]
bra'zen·ly adv., bra'zen·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

brazen 
O.E. bræsen "made of brass," from bræs "brass." The figurative sense of "hardened in effrontery" is c.1573 (in brazen-face), perhaps suggesting a face unable to show shame (see brass). To brazen it out "face impudently" is from 1555.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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