Associations to the word «Tombac»

Wiktionary

TOMBAC, noun. Alternative form of tombak

Dictionary definition

TOMBAC, noun. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope