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Pinchbeck

adjective

Serving as an imitation or substitute.

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"Pinchbeck" Quotes from Famous Books

... could not conceive what pleasure their brother-in-law could find in talking about such trifles. They were ladies of lofty ambition, who for that reason were incapable of taking the least interest in what might be called the 'pinchbeck' things of life, even when they had an historic value, or, generally speaking, in anything that was not directly associated with some object aesthetically precious. So complete was their negation of interest in anything which seemed directly or indirectly a part of our ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... real gold from Ophir. '—lndeed it would be odd if it should not, being formed in fact of that very metal: but, to do this honest creature justice, I believe the knowledge of its real value would not enhance his sense of my father's kindness supposing it, as he does, to be pinchbeck gilded. He has had a hard task replacing the folios which were used in the barricade, smoothing out the creases And dog-ears, and repairing the other disasters they have sustained during their service in the Fortification. He brought us some pieces of lead ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

Words linked to "Pinchbeck" : counterfeit, alloy, imitative, metal