cupreous

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Hence repeated vomits, and cupreous salts, and small doses of squill or foxglove, are so efficacious in this disease.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Beside this I got a rare mess of golden and silver and bright cupreous fishes, which looked like a string of jewels.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

And this bright cupreous dolphin was spawned and has passed its life beneath the level of your feet in your native fields.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David