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coppern

coppern

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Adjective

coppern (comparative more coppern, superlative most coppern)

  1. (rare, archaic or poetic) Made of, or consisting of copper; coppery
    • 1877, Johann Peter Lange, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures:
      "Therefrom Solomon made the copper sea and the pillars and the coppern vessels."
    • 1967, Ssanang Ssetsen, The Bejewelled Summary of the Origin of Khans:
      [...] the ministers, in order to slay him in accordance with the King's command, cut at him with all kinds of swords, but they availed naught and were unable; they put him into a coppern casket and cast him into the Ganges River.
    • 2001, T︠S︡eren Korsunkievich Korsunkiev, John Richard Krueger, Ancient Oirat Books about Oriental Medicine:
      [...] a schema before them on a coppern (reference) figure of a person with markings of acupuncture points (youli kumiini zuruq).

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