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  Mauburn had gone to his room to be alone with this bitter news.  2 Let that pass, sir, continued the stranger, with a bitter smile. 3  Well, since rhyming's been my ruin, let me rhyme to the bitter end. 4  She could be fierce and wicked; she is ignorant and bitter about many things; I am afraid for her.