black copper
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Looking at the flock, Ms. Saye pointed out a bantam Easter egger, a breed that lays blue eggs, and the black copper marans, a breed that is appreciated especially by French chefs for their eggs.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2014
And for the lady of devastating chic and ophidian fascination, who looks forward to penthouses rather than backward at palazzos, is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Art Moderne, a sleek transformable cabriolet in aluminum, black, copper, snakewood.
From Time Magazine Archive
The black, copper coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
This time a face, a high forehead, came moonlike to the black copper screen: "Who are you?"
From Time Magazine Archive
One afternoon Paul saw how a strange vehicle came rumbling along on the road from the town, which looked in the distance like an immense black copper on wheels.
From Dame Care by Overbeck, Bertha
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