copperose

== English == === Noun === copperose (uncountable) (obsolete) Alternative form of copperas. 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book 6, Chapter XII: "A Digression Concerning Blacknesse", p. 336: The ſecond way whereby bodies become blacke, is an Atramentous condition or mixture, that is a vitriolate or copperoſe quality conjoyning with a terreſtrious and aſtringent humidity, for ſo is Atramentum ſcriptorium, or writing Inke commonly made, by copperoſe caſt upon decoction or infuſion of galls...