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COPPERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coppery mean?
• COPPERY (adjective)
The adjective COPPERY has 1 sense:
1. of something having the color of copper
Familiarity information: COPPERY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of something having the color of copper
Synonyms:
copper colored; coppery
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Derivation:
copper (a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper)
Context examples
Away in the distance before and behind, the green boughs, now turning in places to a coppery redness, shot their broad arches across the track.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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