a. Of the color of copper.
1697. Dampier, Voy. (1698), I. x. 297. The Natives of this Island … are Copper-coloured.
1705. Lond. Gaz., No. 4127/2. A Copper-coloured Broad Cloth Coat.
1859. W. S. Coleman, Woodlands (1862), 17. The Copper-coloured Beech.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., II. xxxviii. 449. The copper-colored men are characterized by a moral inflexibility.
