paktong
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Anglicisation of Cantonese 白銅／白铜 (baak6 tung4, “white copper”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒŋ
Noun[edit]
paktong (countable and uncountable, plural paktongs)
- An alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, of Chinese origin; any of a number of similar alloys developed in imitation of the Chinese product.
- 1980, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur: an Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, volume 205, page 108:
- Chinese export metalwork consists almost entirely of three categories: silverware; pewterware; and paktong, an alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, which the Chinese also described as tutenague, and which was probably worked by white metalsmiths also making pewter.
- 1928, The Metal industry, volume 31, page 227:
- Many German-silver paktongs were soon flourishing under a variety of trade names, […]
- 1995, Duncan R. Hook, David R. M. Gaimster, British Museum. Dept of Scientific Research, Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europe and Beyond, page 265:
- From the surviving descriptions it seems likely that during the later eighteenth century most paktong items were sold (in England at least) misleadingly under the name tutenag.
Synonyms[edit]
alloy of copper, nickel and zinc
Translations[edit]
alloy
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