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Webster 1913 Edition
Pinchbeck
Pinch′beck
,Noun.
[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.
Pinch′beck
,Adj.
Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
“A pinchbeck throne.” J. A. Symonds.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pinchbeck
PINCH'BECK
,Noun.
An alloy of copper; a mixture of copper and zink, consisting of three or four parts of copper with one of zink.