Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pinchbeck

Pinchbeck , noun

[Said to be from the name of the inventor; compare Italian 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 , adjective

Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
A pinchbeck throne. — J. A. Symonds