pinchbeck

pinchbeck
1. noun
An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.
a) Made of pinchbeck.

Where, in these pinchbeck days, can we hope to find the old agricultural virtue in all its purity?

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

Vain Delight must have lost her freshness, and be older and more pinchbeck.


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  • Pinchbeck — could be;People *Christopher Pinchbeck, English watchmaker who developed the alloy *Daniel Pinchbeck, American author;Placenames *Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England;Other *Pinchbeck (alloy), an alloy made of copper and zinc …   Wikipedia

  • 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

  • pinchbeck — [pinch′bek΄] n. [after C. Pinchbeck, Eng jeweler who invented it ( c. 1725)] 1. an alloy of copper and zinc used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry 2. anything cheap or imitation adj. 1. made of pinchbeck 2. cheap, imitation, sham, etc …   English World dictionary

  • Pinchbeck — (spr. Pintschbeck), geschmeidige, goldfarbene Legirung aus 2 Theilen Kupfer u. 1 Theil Messing, nach ihrem Erfinder, dem englischen Mechaniker Pinchbeck benannt …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 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 Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Pinchbeck — Pinchbeck, s. unter Messing, S. 524 …   Lexikon der gesamten Technik

  • pinchbeck — index spurious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • pinchbeck — adj Counterfeit, spurious, bogus, fake, sham, pseudo, phony …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Pinchbeck —    A London watchmaker who took his name from Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, invented an alloy of five parts copper and one of zinc that resembled gold. The inventor was Christopher Pinchbeck (1670 1732), whose shop was on Fleet Street. He was an… …   Dictionary of eponyms

  • pinchbeck — /pinch bek/, n. 1. an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold. 2. something sham, spurious, or counterfeit. adj. 3. made of pinchbeck. 4. sham, spurious, or counterfeit: pinchbeck heroism. [1725 35; named after Christopher Pinchbeck… …   Universalium

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