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Pinchbeck

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(1):

(a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.

(2):

(n.) 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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pinchbeck'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pinchbeck.html. 1828.
 
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