sterling silver

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   a silver alloy with no more than 7.5% copper

   Broaderalloy

Questions about sterling silver

What does sterling silver mean?

sterling silver means "a silver alloy with no more than 7.5% copper".

Is sterling silver a common word?

sterling silver 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.