pinchbeck

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Made of pinchbeck.
2. Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.

Conceptes

fraudulent

enganyós

similor

Sinònims

tombac

bogus

counterfeit

dummy

fake

false

fictive

fraudulent

man-made

mock

ormolu

ostensive

phony

pretended

prosthetic

pseudo

sham

stagy

two-faced

copper alloy

hucksterish

artificial

tompac

artificially

Traduccions

princisbecco

orpello

similoro

taklit

Chrysochalk

Betrugs…

betrügerisch

frauduleux

ημίχρυσος

en toc

simili

toc

tombac

Tombak

Etimologia (Anglès)

Named after Christopher Pinchbeck, an 18th century London watchmaker who developed the alloy.