Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An alloy of copper with zinc and sometimes other metals, used in making inexpensive jewelry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the many names of brass; Prince's metal; Mannheim gold.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Metal.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German brass or Dutch brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of tombak.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Dutch tombak, from Malay tembaga.]

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    Each speech a stinging gob smack.

    His gilt is amazin’;

    It seems as if brazen

    But even his brass is tombac.

    January 12, 2019

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    January 17, 2019