pinchbeck in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Pinchbeck jewellery was used in places like stagecoaches where there was a risk of theft.
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Pinchbeck admits that he found his brother dead of a heart attack at home and used his body as a double.
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Pinchbeck had another agenda in mind, as well.
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Pinchbeck says the judges choose the best works, which had not been entered by artists from the most populous states.
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Pinchbeck expected that this may turn players off, leaving people bored and unfulfilled.
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Suppose a pinchbeck popularity to be earned by the adoption of other men's ideas and a wholesale renunciation of one's own -- is this sensational?
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Pinchbeck wanted to see what would happen were a game to focus purely on storytelling, to the exclusion of more traditional interactive elements.
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Later dishonest jewellers passed pinchbeck off as gold; over the years it came to mean a cheap and tawdry imitation of gold.
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The inventor allegedly made pinchbeck jewellery clearly labelled as such.
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