brazen
意味
- 真ちゅう製の
- (色・音・強さなどが)真ちゅうに似た;管楽器のような音を出す
- 鉄面皮な,ずうずうしい
例文
His brazen act of defiance almost cost him his life.
その恥知らずな抵抗活動のために、彼は危うく命を失いかけた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English brasen, from Old English bræsen (“brazen, of brass”); equivalent to brass + -en (compare golden, wooden, etc.). The word originally meant “of brass”; the figurative verb sense (as in brazen it out (“face impudently”)) dates from the 1550s (perhaps evoking the sense “face like brass, unmoving and not showing shame”), and the adjective sense “impudent” from the 1570s. Compare brass neck, bold as brass.