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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of tombac.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as tombac.
  2. n. Agallochum or aloes-wood.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Obsolete form of tombak.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Metal.), obsolete See tombac.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding

Examples

  • “Again, and for a third time, he came out and went through the same ceremony; after which he brought a little basket of rushes, filled with an herb which is called there tambac, which he threw into the boat.”

    Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main

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  1. metal
  1. alloy

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