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What (who) is pinchbeck$60954$ - definition
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Pinchbeck (disambiguation)
pinchbeck
¦ noun an alloy of copper and zinc resembling gold, used in watchmaking and cheap jewellery.
¦ adjective appearing valuable, but actually cheap or tawdry.
Origin
C18: named after the English watchmaker Christopher Pinchbeck.
Pinchbeck
·adj Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
II. Pinchbeck ·noun 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.
pinchbeck
n.
Brummagem, sham.
