Pinchbeck

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pinchbeck \Pinch"beck\, a.
     Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. "A
     pinchbeck throne." --J. A. Symonds.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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