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Meaning of copper-bottomed | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Having lower parts made of or covered by copper.
    especially
  2. Thoroughly reliable; secure.
    British, idiomatic

Equivalents

Gaeilge coparthónach

Examples

“According to Robert Hulse, 'It's half worm, half mollusc, and there are more dead men at the bottom of the sea as a result of those things [shipworms] than all the naval battles put together. They're the reason you had copper-bottomed ships'.”
“The copper-bottomed angel at Messrs. Paff’s in Broadway.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

copperbottomed coppered Copperfieldian copperish copperless coppern

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