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Pinchbeck
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.
Pinchbeck
Pinchbeck Pinch"beck, a. Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. ``A pinchbeck throne.' --J. A. Symonds.

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- Look up pinchbeck in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pinchbeck may refer to: Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England, UK Pinchbeck Engine, a drainage museum...
- Pinchbeck is a form of br****, an alloy of copper and zinc mixed in proportions so that it closely resembles gold in appearance. It was invented in the...
- Daniel Pinchbeck is an American author. His books include Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, 2012:...
- Co-founder Pinchbeck took the role of creative director for The Chinese Room, while Curry continued as an independent composer for the studio. Pinchbeck described...
- Ivy Pinchbeck (9 April 1898 – 10 May 1982) was a British economic and social historian, specialising in the history of women. Her book of 1930,Women Workers...
- Pinchbeck is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. The civil parish po****tion was 5,153 at the 2001 census...
- Valjean A. Pinchbeck Jr. (February 16, 1931 – March 6, 2004) was an American football executive on both the college and professional level. Pinchbeck was born...
- Christopher Pinchbeck, also called Catarrón (c. 1670 – (1732-11-18)18 November 1732) was a London clockmaker and maker of musical automata. He was born...
- The Pinchbeck Engine is a drainage engine, a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire, in England...
- Council and led by Dan Pinchbeck, a professor and lecturer at the university. The story and script were composed by Pinchbeck, who cited the works of...