pinchbeck

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

arglistig

betrügerisch

Goldkupfer

Tombak

Betrugs…

Chrysochalk

Synonyme

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

Übersetzungen

princisbecco

orpello

similoro

taklit

ημίχρυσος

ψευδόχρυσος

enganyós

toc

simili

tombac

chrysocale

chrysochalque

falso

χρυσόχαλκος

Etymologie (Englisch)

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