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Pinchbeck

noun
1.
An alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold.





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"Pinchbeck" Quotes from Famous Books



... political rectitude and decency which characterised the period of the Second Empire, a little band of Republicans refused to bow the knee to the new pinchbeck Caesar, "the man," says Freeman, "whose lips uttered the words je le jure and kept the oath by a December massacre." Inspired by Victor Hugo, their fiery poet and seer, whose Chatiments have the passionate intensity of ...
— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey
... evidently went to pave a place which shall be nameless," said Major Carstairs dryly. "After all, her affection for you seems to have been a very pinchbeck affair, Chloe, if she could calmly stand by and see you suffer for her wickedness. And for my part I don't see how you can be expected to ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes


Words linked to "Pinchbeck" :   imitative, alloy, metal, counterfeit


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