copper-dun

Updated: July 22, 2026

So we poor women are dumb and useless. For proof, she harangued the entire household unsparingly till food and drink were brought; and in the evening the smoke-scented evening, copper-dun and turquoise across the fields it pleased her to order her palanquin to be set down in the untidy forecourt by smoky torchlight; and there, behind not too closely drawn curtains, she gossiped.

Rudyard Kipling - Kim