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pewter

adjective as in leaden

adjective as in leaden

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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."

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“A packet of red paste and a tea tray, which might be iron or pewter.”

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

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The team’s primary colors have been red and pewter since 1997.

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More telling, however, is an early moment when she finds an unfrozen stream and rummages in her carry bag for “the pewter cup she had stolen.”

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