Definitions
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- adjective Without
copper metal.
Etymologies
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copper + -less
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Examples
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I have learned the uplifting lesson that the real heart of humanity appreciates manhood above things; as a copperless struggler I was often accorded a place above the possessor of gold.
Documenting the American South: Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1911
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On the north side, doorless and windowless, the clap-boards, innocent of paint, were yet green as the north side of lichened pines, or copperless hulls of Japanese junks, becalmed.
The piazza tales 1856
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On the north side, doorless and windowless, the clap-boards, innocent of paint, were yet green as the north side of lichened pines or copperless hulls of
The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855
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