pinchbeck

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 gold
    

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