NOUN (1)

1. an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. serving as an imitation or substitute;
- Example: "pinchbeck heroism"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pinchbeck \Pinch"beck\, a.
   Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. "A
   pinchbeck throne." --J. A. Symonds.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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