pinchbeck

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

falso

engañoso

enga oso

fraudulento

similor

Tombac

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

princisbecco

orpello

similoro

taklit

Goldkupfer

betrügerisch

enganyós

χρυσόχαλκος

Chrysochalk

ψευδόχρυσος

ημίχρυσος

frauduleux

en toc

arglistig

Etimología (Inglés)

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