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n. - Alloy of copper and tin and zinc.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Knovelties and the little Phine Phun oroide gold finger ring that sticks a needle in your friend's hand.
  • Why we got off at the first station we could, belongs to a little oroide gold watch and Alaska diamond deal we failed to pull off the day before, over the Kentucky line.
  • One word brought on another, they drifted, by easy stages, into draw poker, and before Snowdon left he had won two hundred and eighty dollars and, an oroide watch chain...
  • Albert and the oroide gold pants and the amalgamated copper hat, that carried the combination meat-axe, ice-pick, and liberty-pole, and used to stand on the first...
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