[Cf. Ger. kupfernase, F. couperose.]
1. Path. A red nose caused by the disease Acne rosacea, by intemperance, etc.; also, as a single word, a name for the disease.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., I. ii. 115. I had as lieue, Helens golden tongue had commended Troylus for a copper nose.
1822. Scott, Nigel, x. The stoutest raven dared not come within a yard of that copper-nose.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., Coppernose, a synonym of Acne Rosacea.
2. The Copper-nosed Bream (Lepomis pallidus).
Hence Copper-nosed a., having a red- or copper-colored nose.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1676), 386. He was copper-nosed, and that was full of white streaks here and there.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Pouacre, a filthy, foule, rotten, copper nosed one.
1724. Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), I. 90. Copper-nos’d Francie and Gibbie.
