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Pinchbeck
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What's The Definition Of Pinchbeck?
[n] an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold
[adj] serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism" Synonyms | Synonyms for Pinchbeck: counterfeit | imitative Related Terms | Find terms related to Pinchbeck: affected | apocryphal | artificial | assumed | bastard | bogus | bravery | brummagem | cheat | chiffon | clinquant | colorable | colored | counterfeit | counterfeited | distorted | dressed up | dummy | embellished | embroidered | ersatz | factitious | fake | faked | fakement | false | falsified | feigned | festoons | fictitious | fictive | finery | folderol | foofaraw | forgery | frame-up | fraud | frilliness | frilling | frills | frills and furbelows | frippery | froufrou | fuss | gaiety | garbled | gaudery | gilding | gilt | gingerbread | hoax | illegitimate | imitation | impostor | junk | junky | make-believe | man-made | mock | paste | perverted | phony | pretended | pseudo | put-on | put-up job | quasi | queer | rip-off | self-styled | sham | shoddy | simulacrum | simulated | snide | so-called | soi-disant | spurious | superfluity | supposititious | swindle | synthetic | tin | tinsel | titivated | trappings | trickery | trumpery | twisted | unauthentic | ungenuine | unnatural | unreal | warped | whited sepulcher Pinchbeck In Webster's Dictionary \Pinch"beck\, n. [Said to be from the name of the
inventor; cf. It. prencisbecco.]
An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal,
composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper.
It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of
cheap jewelry.
\Pinch"beck\, a. Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. ``A pinchbeck throne.'' --J. A. Symonds. |
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