melchiorn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛlkɪɔː/, U.S.

/ˈmɛlkiˌɔr/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French melchior.

Etymology: < French melchior (1858), humorous alteration of maillechort maillechort n. after the male forename Melchior. N.E.D. (1906) gives the headword as melchoir, probably an error. Its only quotation, to the Pall Mall Gaz. with the same date as the example given here, has not been traced.

Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.

= nickel silver n. and adj. at nickel n. and adj. Compounds 1b(b).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > copper, zinc, and nickel or imitation silver

occamy1596

tutenag1622

paitung1736

paktong1776

German silver1828

electrum1829

albata1833

argentan1847

maillechort1851

nickel silver1860

nickeline1882

melchior1892

1892 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 5/4 One hundred and twenty-eight boxes of ‘Melchior’, a white metal used for casing the bullets of the new weapon, will also shortly be shipped to Reval by an English steamer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	melchior
释义	melchiorn. Brit. /ˈmɛlkɪɔː/, U.S. /ˈmɛlkiˌɔr/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French melchior. Etymology: < French melchior (1858), humorous alteration of maillechort maillechort n. after the male forename Melchior. N.E.D. (1906) gives the headword as melchoir, probably an error. Its only quotation, to the Pall Mall Gaz. with the same date as the example given here, has not been traced. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. = nickel silver n. and adj. at nickel n. and adj. Compounds 1b(b). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > copper, zinc, and nickel or imitation silver occamy1596 tutenag1622 paitung1736 paktong1776 German silver1828 electrum1829 albata1833 argentan1847 maillechort1851 nickel silver1860 nickeline1882 melchior1892 1892 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 5/4 One hundred and twenty-eight boxes of ‘Melchior’, a white metal used for casing the bullets of the new weapon, will also shortly be shipped to Reval by an English steamer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1892
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