Dutch metal
Britishnoun
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A fine kind of brass, supposed to be made by the cementation of copper plates with calamine, is, in Germany, hammered out into leaves, and is called Dutch metal in this country.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
And does he then recover them with the bright blue or scarlet that is so dear to him, daubing them here and there with his indispensable Dutch metal?
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
It sustains the same relation to sincerity that Dutch metal does to pure gold.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
The watches are worthless, the diamonds and other jewels are paste, and the gold is pinchbeck or Dutch metal.
From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney
Matthew, I found, was but a piece of coarse gingerbread, tricked out with the Dutch metal of false sentiment.
From Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 by Seymour, Robert
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