Crossword-Solution: PINCHBECK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pinchbeck | n. | 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. |
| Pinchbeck | a. | Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PINCHBECK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| cheap imitation gold | 1 answer |
| zinc alloy | 12 answers |
| copper alloy | 25 answers |
| alloy | 49 answers |
| INFERIOR person | 49 answers |
| spurious | 51 answers |
| Imitator | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PINCHBECK (5)
Then he got together his small belongings--an old campaign hat, a pair of boots, a tin of tobacco, and a pinchbeck bracelet which he had found one Sunday in the Park, and which he believed to be valuable.
The Russian Countess gave talks on the prisons of Siberia, wearing the headdress and pinchbeck ornaments of a Slav bride; the Aesthete, in his white cassock, gave readings on obscure questions of art and ethics.
Her face had altered too, like her voice, haggard lines suddenly appearing about the eyes and mouth as if they had just been pencilled there: the truth issuing from beneath her pinchbeck simulations, like a tragic mask revealed by the displacement of a tawdry covering.
Where is thy chest, friend? Thou shalt have ready money' (winking at his companions), 'ready money, and good weight, and sound metal; none of your rascally pinchbeck.
They hound one another, and know not whither! They inflame one another, and know not why! They tinkle with their pinchbeck, they jingle with their gold.