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Sterling silver   /stˈərlɪŋ sˈɪlvər/   Listen
Sterling silver

noun
1.
A silver alloy with no more than 7.5% copper.





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"Sterling silver" Quotes from Famous Books



... person never lived in any lone female's house. And to think of their saying such dreadful things about him! I am sure I never thought of locking anything away from Mr. Haley in this house—and there's the 'leven sterling silver teaspoons that belonged to poor, dear Charles' mother, and the gold-lined sugar-basin that was my Aunt Abby's, and the sugar tongs—although they're ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... they chuse by way of apology, but I neither like nor understand such on-going as changing sterling silver half-crowns into copper penny-pieces, or mending a man's coat—as they did mine, after cutting a blad out of one of the ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir


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