pewter

The silver, pewter and brass items were taken from the 16th Century manor house at Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, on 30 July.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

There was a claw-foot tub with pewter fixtures, a charmingly messy bookshelf window-seat, a kitchen painted a cool green.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

Instead of pewter, Charrière employs polished stainless steel panels, the largest more than seven feet tall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

The purpose of such irrelevant details—the pewter plates, the glorious eggs—is to create what Roland Barthes called ‘the reality effect’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Jabez slowly lifted his eyes from the pewters he was washing, and a broad smile crossed his face.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine

I go in in the scratch fours for the pewters, and—more by token—my crew won them two years running.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes

Seated on the benches were a number of men, women, and girls, all with pewters or glasses before them, and the air was thickening with smoke of pipes.

From Thyrza by George Gissing

There was a momentary silence, as both men drained their pewters, and a moment after they left the Blue Boar.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins

Pipe-racks of oak were screwed into the wainscoting under long shelves, well stored with pewters, glass tankards, punch-bowls, and tobacco-jars.

From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers