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Blouses were trimmed with copper-coloured sequins and there was a healthy smattering of tweed, metallic and brocade.
Paris fashion week turns to Lady Gaga – and a quiet Belgian 2011
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˜The country will be in the hands of the white Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.
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The copper-coloured strip helped to earn the national team its nickname of 'Chipolopolo', meaning 'Copper Bullets'.
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Zambia used to wear copper-coloured jerseys, which were last used in the late 1990s.
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The pot is then filled nearly full of sai-gee and stirred frequently for four days more, during which it ferments and throws up a copper-coloured scum.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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To finish the portrait, the bearing of the gracious Duncan was brief, bluff, and consequential, and the upward turn of his short copper-coloured nose indicated that he was somewhat addicted to wrath and usquebaugh.
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The master warmed beneath his copper-coloured rind.
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He had become quite an old man since I had seen him last; his deeply furrowed, copper-coloured face stood out sharply against his white hair.
Punin and Baburin 2006
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He had become quite an old man since I had seen him last; his deeply furrowed, copper-coloured face stood out sharply against his white hair.
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He was clothed in bluish cloth, and was of a copper-coloured hue, with black hair.
The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006
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