/tahl"mee/
a metal made by rolling gold on brass, used in making costume jewelry. Also called Abyssinian gold .
[ 1865-70; Talmigold counterfeit gold, partial trans. of F Tal. mi-or, shortening of Tallois demi-or lit., Tallois half-gold, a copper-zinc alloy with a thin gold coating, named after a 19th-century Parisian inventor ]