coppersmith
Americannoun
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a person who makes utensils, jewelry, etc., out of copper.
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a crimson-breasted barbet, Megalaima haemacephala, of India, southeast Asia, and adjacent islands, characterized by the ringing, metallic sound of its note.
noun
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a person who works copper or copper alloys
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an Asian barbet (a bird), Megalaima haemacephala, the call of which has a ringing metallic note
Etymology
Origin of coppersmith
Example Sentences
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His father, a coppersmith and jeweler, settled with his family in Brooklyn a decade later.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2022
As a young man, Sherman trained as a coppersmith in the US naval shipyards outside Seattle, where his dad worked as an electrician.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2016
Mr. Porter has given the museum a pair of copper cuff links that resemble African tribal masks; they were designed by Winifred Mason Chenet, a Brooklyn-born modernist coppersmith who mentored Art Smith.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2016
One day, he met a coppersmith who shared his surname.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014
A coppersmith had fashioned her a suit of burnished rings to wear to war.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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