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Pinchbeck
An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.
📖 Definitions of "Pinchbeck"
noun
- 1
An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.
adjective
- 1
Made of pinchbeck.
- 2
Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.
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