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Copper Captain (A)

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A Brummagem captain; a “General von Poffenburgh.” Michael Perez is so called in Rule a Wife and have a Wife, by Beaumont and Fletcher.

“To this copper-captain was confided the command of the troops.”—W. Irving.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cop (A)
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Cop (To)
Copenhagen
Copernicanism
Copesmate
Cophetua
Copper (A)
Copper
Copper
Copper Captain (A)
Copper Nose
Copper-nosed Harry
Copperheads
Copple
Copronymus
Copts
Copus
Copy
Copyhold Estate
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