pewter
Example Sentences
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The work, with a handsome design by Mr. Loquasto, features what look like sheets of pewter leaf hanging from clotheslines, beneath and through which eight dancers in dusky-hued unitards come and go.
He remembers two politicians who would eat together and regularly put in the same order: "Two working man's portions of your beef and two pewter mugs of your finest ales."
From BBC
“A packet of red paste and a tea tray, which might be iron or pewter.”
From Literature
The photographs are made using heliography — “sun writing,” a term coined by 19th century French photography pioneer Nicéphore Niépce — a technique akin to etching with light-sensitive materials on reflective pewter plates.
From Los Angeles Times
The team’s primary colors have been red and pewter since 1997.
From Washington Times
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