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Taken from Wikipedia:

"The brazen bull, bronze bull, or Sicilian bull, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece.[1] According to Diodorus Siculus, recounting the story in Bibliotheca historica, Perillos of Athens invented and proposed it to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas, Sicily, as a new means of executing criminals.[2] The bull was made entirely of bronze, hollow, with a door in one side.[3] The bull was in the form and size of an actual bull and had an acoustic apparatus that converted screams into the sound of a bull. The condemned were locked in the device, and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside roasted to death."

taken from google definitions:

"bra·zen

/ˈbrāzən/

adjective

adjective: brazen

1. bold and without shame. "he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance"

synonyms: bold, shameless, unashamed, unabashed, unembarrassed; More defiant, impudent, impertinent, cheeky, insolent, in-your-face;

barefaced, blatant, flagrant;

informalsaucy

"brazen defiance"

antonyms: timid

2. literary made of brass.

•harsh in sound. "the music's brazen chords"

verb

verb: brazen; 3rd person present: brazens; past tense: brazened; past participle: brazened; gerund or present participle: brazening

1. endure an embarrassing or difficult situation by behaving with apparent confidence and lack of shame.

synonyms: put on a bold front, stand one's ground, be defiant, be unrepentant, be unabashed "we were shaking in our boots, but we brazened it out"