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Copy

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That’s a mere copy of your countenance. Not your real wish or meaning, but merely one you choose to present to me.

Copy is a printer’s term both for original MS. and printed matter that is to be set up in type.

 

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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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Copper
Copper
Copper Captain (A)
Copper Nose
Copper-nosed Harry
Copperheads
Copple
Copronymus
Copts
Copus
Copy
Copyhold Estate
Copyright
Coq-à-lâne
Corah
Coral Beads
Coral Master
Coram Judice (Latin)
Coranach
Corbant
Corbeaux