pewter
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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
There was a gleam of rubbed wood and burnished pewter.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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