pewter

The person who catches the biggest fish goes home with an engraved pewter cup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

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 ● Sep. 7, 2024

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

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 ● Oct. 20, 2023

After a while, the ink began to dry, leaving brown rings in the bottoms of their pewter bowls, and it was time to clean up.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

In an instant there is uproar: the merry applause of clinking pewters; the stamping of feet; the rattle of sticks.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

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

That's what we used to sing in the Lane, yer know; should 'ave seen the coster gals with their feathers, dancing and clinking their pewters.

From Esther Waters by George (George Augustus) Moore

The Strand was kept alive by a few slip-shod housemaids, on their marrow-bones, washing the doorsteps, or ogling the neighbouring pot-boy on his morning errand for the pewters.

From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

So to the Cheshire Cheese they repaired, and drank to a long friendship in foaming pewters of porter.

From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne