Dutch metal
Britishnoun
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These should be made of aluminum leaf, or of Dutch metal.
From How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John
The painters of old, when they portrayed sainted personages, were fain to have recourse to compasses and gold leaf—as if celestial splendour could be represented by Dutch metal!
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Robert Green Ingersoll
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 Dutton Cook
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 James Dabney McCabe
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