Welsh Copper Society. The Welsh copper industries of mining, smelting and refining created generations of talented workers. Although dominated by men, women took part too, particularly in the North Wales mines.
Bittersweet is defined as a climbing plant in the nightshade family or Celastrus genus, or the emotion that joins joy and sadness. An example of bittersweet is a woody nightshade vine with small orange fruits. An example of bittersweet is the state of ending college. bittersweet a North American twining woody vine (Celastrus scandens) of the staff-tree family, with poisonous leaves, and bearing clusters of small orange fruits with bright-red fleshy seeds
Historical Examples. 1  Now he loves the wind as one of the thousand things of the earth which contribute to the intensification of his vital feeling. mile Verhaeren Stefan Zweig. 2  An intensification of the vague footsteps I had thought I heard before. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Various.