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Brewer's: Copper Captain
(A). 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.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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