'Pinchbeck' definitions:
Definition of 'pinchbeck'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"
noun
An alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold
Definition of 'Pinchbeck'
From: GCIDE
- Pinchbeck \Pinch"beck\, a. Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. "A pinchbeck throne." --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pinchbeck'
From: GCIDE
- Pinchbeck \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]
Synonyms of 'pinchbeck'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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