Pinchbeck \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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pinchbeck \Pinch"beck\, a.
Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. "A
pinchbeck throne." --J. A. Symonds.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pinchbeck
adj : serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"
n : an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to
imitate gold
WordNet (r) 2.0
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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A type of imitation gold composed of an alloy of copper and zinc invented by Christopher Pinchbeck in the 18th century.
http://www.zulumoon.com/glossary/P-glossary.htm
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A metal (not found in today's jewelry) made from the combination of copper and zinc to look like gold. Wears very well. Often, mistaken for gold filled and gold plated items. When the jewelry has a particularly pinkish gold cast to it, the content of copper is higher. Very popular in the 1800s.
http://reviews.ebay.com.au/Dictionary-of-Costume-Jewelry_W0QQugidZ10000000000703742
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Christopher Pinchbeck, 1670-1732, was a London jeweler, watchmaker, and alchemist who invented a substitute for gold made from an alloy of copper and zinc.
http://valleyfairjewelers.com/glossary.htm
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An early 18th century alloy of copper and zinc (9 parts zinc and 48 parts copper) invented by Christopher Pinchbeck. Another formula consisted of 83 parts copper and 17 parts zinc. It looks like gold, wore well and maintained its color. ...
http://www.lenim.com/antique_jewelry_glossary.asp
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serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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Pinchbeck is a form of brass, an alloy of copper and zinc mixed in proportions so that it closely resembles gold in appearance. Invented in the 1700's by Christopher Pinchbeck, a London clockmaker, it was intended as a cheaper substitute for gold used in ornamentation. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinchbeck (alloy)
b. j. pinchbeck, daniel pinchbeck
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