PEWTER


Meaning of PEWTER in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a pewter mug

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A champagne theme is suggested and repeated in the elaborate pewter railing that edges the second-floor balcony overlooking the bar.

He was clutching a pewter tankard with a glass bottom.

It was used as a cheap substitute for pewter and as a base for electroplate finishes.

Itinerant peddlers positioned themselves along the roadside to hawk their pewter , copper, and tin.

On the corrugated pewter there floated two boats.

Others had ornate pewter stoppers or were nestled in velvet-lined boxes.

Oval pewter boxes have hand-engraved monograms, from £17.95, while prettily embroidered hankies are £5.75.

Place a sheet of copper or pewter , pressing quite hard, so that you indent it.

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