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  With a great tumult the throng rose, a billow of life, the white handkerchiefs flying foam-like on its crest. Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete Albert Bigelow Paine. 2  There was a gentle flash of quick light that was smothered by a billow of smoke. History Repeats George Oliver Smith.