a metal made by rolling gold on brass, used in making costume jewelry
Also called: Abyssinian gold
Word origin
[1865–70; ‹ G Talmigold counterfeit gold, partial trans. of F Tal. mi-or, shortening of Tallois demi-or lit., Tallois half-gold, a copper-zinc alloy with a thin gold coating, named aftera 19th-century Parisian inventor]