britannia metal

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   an alloy similar to pewter

   Broaderalloy

Questions about britannia metal

What does britannia metal mean?

britannia metal means "an alloy similar to pewter".

Is britannia metal a common word?

britannia metal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.