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Pinchbeck

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An alloy of zinc and copper used as imitation gold.

n. A cheap imitation.

adj. Made of pinchbeck.

adj. Imitation; spurious.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.

adj. Made of pinchbeck.

adj. Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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.

adj. Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An alloy of three or four parts of copper with one of zinc, much used in cheap jewelry.

Sham; spurious; bogus.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. serving as an imitation or substitute

n. an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold

Word Usage

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Equivalent

imitative counterfeit

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

metal alloy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sham cheap spurious unreal counterfeit

Same Context

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