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Definition of Coppery
1. Adjective. Of something having the color of copper.
Definition of Coppery
1. a. Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
Definition of Coppery
1. Adjective. resembling the metal copper, especially in color ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coppery
1. resembling copper [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coppery
Literary usage of Coppery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hispano-Moresque Pottery in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America by Edwin Atlee Barber (1915)
"wash, which is again coated with a rich translucent blue glaze on which a diapering
of vermicular ornament in coppery lustre covers the whole piece, ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... exposed culmen 2.70 to 3.60 inches)—will doubtless soon be added to the North
American fauna. — ROBERT RIDGWAY, Washington, DC The coppery-tailed Trogon ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"If titanium is present, the coppery-red compound represented by the formula is
found, and may be easily recognized on the platinum wire. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1858)
"The greater duration of the latter, their coppery or grayish hue, and the general
course of the disease of which they are a symptom, will serve as criteria. ..."
5. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"Car, multipunctatus, Linn, Usually dark brassy above, with the borders of the
thorax and of the elytra bright coppery-green ; head with a deep ..."
6. Notes from a Diary, 1886-1888 by Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1900)
"With the coppery sky scorching him by day, and the changeless blue above him at
night, rarely knowing the shelter even of an Arab tent, carrying with him ..."
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