brazen

1. (archaic) Made of brass.Examples: "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."; "And Moses made a brass image of the fiery serpents, and put it up on a pole, where all the people could see it; and when any one was bitten, he could look upon the brazen serpent, and was cured."archaic

2. (figuratively) Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.Examples: "The women, stout, strong, brazen-faced creatures, in most cases looked able to thrash any of the partners with whom they consorted."; "The vegetation was similar to that which covers the lawns of the red Martians of the great waterways, but the trees and birds were unlike anything that I had ever seen upon Mars, and then through the further trees I could see that most un-Martian of all sights—an open sea, its blue waters shimmering beneath the brazen sun."; "Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure."figuratively

3. (archaic) Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.Examples: "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."; "In the autumn, when a small group of us heard him [Frank Wedekind] read from Heracles, his last work, I was amazed at his brazen energy. For two and a half hours without stopping, without once lowering his voice (and what a strong, brazen voice it was), barely pausing for breath for even a moment between acts, bent motionless over the table, he read – half from memory – those verses wrought in brass, looking deep into the eyes of each of his listeners in turn."archaic