coppery
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- Containing or resembling copper; having any quality of copper: as, a coppery solution; a coppery taste. If the eclipse [of the moon] becomes total the whole disk of the moon will nearly always be plainly visible, shining with a red, coppery light. Newcomb and Holden, Astron., p. 171.
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- Linnet was a tiny thing, with long, coppery-brown hair that reached almost to her ankles when she let it down. — The Robin And The Kestrel
- The complexion was coppery, the nose too flat and the eyes slightly Mongoloid. — Red Dog
- My attacker, a skinny, coppery-bearded fellow, smashed an arbalest over my head. — And Other Tales Of Valdemar
- She stood slender and straight, the candleglow shimmering in the coppery-brown hair, and said: — Three Hearts and Three Lions
- "It's sort of coppery," said Tom. — The Adventurous Four
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- from copper + -y.