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pinchbeck n. 金色銅,冒牌貨
a. 金色銅制的,冒牌的 金色銅,冒牌貨金色銅制的,冒牌的 pinchbeck adj 1: serving as an imitation or substitute; " pinchbeck heroism" n 1: an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate goldPinchbeck \ 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]
Pinchbeck \ Pinch" beck\, a. Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. " A pinchbeck throne." -- J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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