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"etymology_text": "Named after Christopher Pinchbeck, an 18th century London watchmaker who developed the alloy.",
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"sense": "an alloy of copper and zinc",
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"word": "princisbecco"
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"sense": "an alloy of copper and zinc",
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"sense": "an alloy of copper and zinc",
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"sense": "an alloy of copper and zinc",
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"Made of pinchbeck."
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"(not comparable) Made of pinchbeck."
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"ref": "1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage",
"text": "Where, in these pinchbeck days, can we hope to find the old agricultural virtue in all its purity?",
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"ref": "1912, Esther Willard Bates, Pageants and Pageantry, page 237",
"text": "Vain Delight must have lost her freshness, and be older and more pinchbeck.",
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"ref": "1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory, Note to the First Edition",
"text": "The second point on which I wish to offer a remark is the existence (in the novel) of a person named Schomberg.\nThat I believe him to be true goes without saying. I am not likely to offer pinchbeck wares to my public consciously.",
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"ref": "1996, John M. Sherwig, Guineas and Gunpowder: British Foreign Aid In the Wars with France, 1793-1815, page 180",
"text": "Coming at a time when Alexander was trying desperately to halt Napoleon's advance, the British response to his call for help appeared even more pinchbeck than it was.",
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"ref": "2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 183",
"text": "Anyway, at least I had created the pinchbeck crown in which Dai could place his jewel.",
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"Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive."
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"ref": "1912, Esther Willard Bates, Pageants and Pageantry, page 237",
"text": "Vain Delight must have lost her freshness, and be older and more pinchbeck.",
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},
{
"ref": "1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory, Note to the First Edition",
"text": "The second point on which I wish to offer a remark is the existence (in the novel) of a person named Schomberg.\nThat I believe him to be true goes without saying. I am not likely to offer pinchbeck wares to my public consciously.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1996, John M. Sherwig, Guineas and Gunpowder: British Foreign Aid In the Wars with France, 1793-1815, page 180",
"text": "Coming at a time when Alexander was trying desperately to halt Napoleon's advance, the British response to his call for help appeared even more pinchbeck than it was.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 183",
"text": "Anyway, at least I had created the pinchbeck crown in which Dai could place his jewel.",
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