Definitionadj. serving as an imitation or substitute
Last update: September 16, 2015
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But our expectations are fustian spangled with pinchbeck; we look for tragedy to be theatrical. [Please select]
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Courtenay, arrayed in peach-coloured coat and waistcoat, with black satin breeches and white silk stockings, and pinchbeck buckles a-sparkle on his shoes. [Please select]
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It is not even the Silver Age, unless, haply, the German Silver--that is to say, the Plated or Pinchbeck Age. [Please select]
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Bisset agreed, but the day before the performance, Pinchbeck declined, and the other was left to act for himself. [Please select]
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In this edition Dryden's pinchbeck epigram so often quoted, first appeared-- Three poets in three distant ages born, &c. [Please select]
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To a people who had counted on statehood these concessions were small pinchbeck. [Please select]
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"Made of pinchbeck, my dear Major, both of them, and yet how genuine it looks on the surface, and what a lot of it is in circulation." [Please select]
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But as the pinchbeck time-pieces of the frontier did not furnish enough repairing to take up his entire time, he had many spare hours, and these he devoted to securing pelts. [Please select]
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