Definition of Coppery

1. Adjective. Of something having the color of copper.

Exact synonyms: Copper Colored
Similar to: Chromatic
Derivative terms: 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

copperplate
copperplated
copperplates
copperplating
coppers
coppersmith
coppersmithies
coppersmithing
coppersmiths
coppersmithy
copperware
copperwork
copperworks
copperworm
copperworms
coppery (current term)
coppice
coppice regeneration
coppiced
coppices
coppicing
coppies
coppin
copping
copping out
coppins
coppish
copple
coppled
copples

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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