Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Containing or resembling copper; having any quality of copper: as, a coppery solution; a coppery taste.
Wiktionary
- adj. resembling the metal copper, especially in color
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of something having the color of copper
Examples
“Ginny was half a block away, her voluptuous bottom sheathed in coppery velvet.”
“Fighting his own gag reflex, Gil catalogued the unwelcome but familiar smells—both the putrid odor of decaying flesh and the lingering coppery scent of dried and rotting blood.”
“Her skin was coppery and smooth, and her black eyes were alert and businesslike.”
“Suddenly I could see that strange scene all over again, the odd, unearthly light, the chanting, the smell of incense and something more elemental: the coppery scent of blood.”
“I nodded as he bent forward, his lips brushing over mine, and then all I could taste were the rivulets of water sliding between our mouths and the sweat from his skin, tinged with coppery blood.”
“I can picture the connection now, the links of our chromosomes dark and coppery, solid as a chain.”
“My family made yogurt and cucumber salad too Greeks call it tzatziki and I knew the flavor: the dried mint and cucumber, the coppery bite of garlic embedded in the creamy yogurt.”
“More blood wine, some ready and tasting of alcohol, other bottles unfinished and familiar in their coppery flavor.”
“It was larger than the first and more coppery in hue.”
“There was so much of it, and the slick coppery smell was starting to turn my stomach.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘coppery’.
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