pak tongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Anglicisation of Cantonese 白銅／白铜 (baak6 tung4, “white copper”).

発音

• 韻: -ɒŋ

名詞

paktong (countable and uncountable, plural paktongs)

1. An alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, of Chinese origin; any of a number of similar alloys developed in imitation of the Chinese product.
   • 1980, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur: an Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, volume 205, page 108:

     Chinese export metalwork consists almost entirely of three categories: silverware; pewterware; and paktong, an alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, which the Chinese also described as tutenague, and which was probably worked by white metalsmiths also making pewter.

   • 1928, The Metal industry, volume 31, page 227:

     Many German-silver paktongs were soon flourishing under a variety of trade names, […]

   • 1995, Duncan R. Hook, David R. M. Gaimster, British Museum. Dept of Scientific Research, Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europe and Beyond, page 265:

     From the surviving descriptions it seems likely that during the later eighteenth century most paktong items were sold (in England at least) misleadingly under the name tutenag.

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