Usually means: Imitation gold made from copper.
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  1. pinchbeck: Merriam-Webster
  2. Pinchbeck, pinchbeck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pinchbeck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pinchbeck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pinchbeck: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pinchbeck, pinchbeck: Wordnik
  7. pinchbeck: Wiktionary
  8. pinchbeck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pinchbeck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pinchbeck: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Pinchbeck, pinchbeck: Dictionary.com
  12. Pinchbeck (alloy): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Pinchbeck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. pinchbeck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. pinchbeck: Rhymezone
  16. Pinchbeck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. pinchbeck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Pinchbeck: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  19. pinchbeck: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pinchbeck: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. pinchbeck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pinchbeck: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Pinchbeck: World Wide Words
  24. Pinchbeck: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. pinchbeck: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinchbeck: A Word A Day
  2. pinchbeck: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pinchbeck)

▸ noun:  An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.
▸ adjective:  (not comparable) Made of pinchbeck.
▸ adjective:  Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.
▸ noun:  A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TF2425).
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
counterfeit, imitative, paktong, minargent, albata, caracoly, oroide, jeweller's gold, pewter, paitung, more...

Opposite:
genuine, authentic, real

Types:
gilt, gold-plated, golden, plated, more...

Phrases:
Daniel Pinchbeck, more...

Adjectives:
shameless, only, mere, mouth, literary, lacquered, small, genuine, eloquent, worthless, obsolete

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Similar:
counterfeit, imitative, paktong, minargent, albata, caracoly, oroide, jeweller's gold, pewter, paitung, more...

Opposite:
genuine, authentic, real

Types:
gilt, gold-plated, golden, plated, more...

Phrases:
Daniel Pinchbeck, more...

Adjectives:
shameless, only, mere, mouth, literary, lacquered, small, genuine, eloquent, worthless, obsolete



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