/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · 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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