נְחוּשְׁתָּן, (preced.) bronze. Midd. II, 3; Tosef. Yoma II, 4; Y. ib. III, 41ᵃ מפני שנ׳ מצהיב because bronze has the appearance of gold; (Bab. ib. 38ᵃ מפני שנְחוּשְׁתָּן מצוהבת היתה (from נחושת, v. preced.) because the bronze of which they were made was goldlike). Tosef. l. c. נ׳ קלנתיא היה (Var. נְחוּשְׁתָּא) it was Corinthian bronze; Yoma l. c. נחושת קלוניתא היתה (Ms. M. קלניתא); Yalk. Cant. 985.