Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or resembling copper; having any quality of copper: as, a coppery solution; a coppery taste.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling the metal
copper , especially in color.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of something having the color of copper
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ginny was half a block away, her voluptuous bottom sheathed in coppery velvet.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- MYRA GETS READY Maggie Jochild 2007
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My hair is like an almost blonde almost brown kind of coppery color and when it gets wet its basically black.
hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004
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One of them is a bitter or "coppery" taste in the mouth, notably in the early morning.
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More blood wine, some ready and tasting of alcohol, other bottles unfinished and familiar in their coppery flavor.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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It was larger than the first and more coppery in hue.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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The type of fear that radiates through your guts and leaves a coppery taste in your mouth that no mouthwash shall ever make clean.
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His smooth skin was coppery, his blue-black hair a shimmering curtain around his shoulders.
Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
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A coppery swell of my own blood pooled in my mouth.
How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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He lifted his head, searching for the smell of coppery blood.
Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
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The lurid coppery glow had vanished, and the sky thickened and lowered until the darkness was as that of a late twilight.
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