Pewter vs Garnish - What's the difference?
pewter | garnish |
An alloy of approximately 93–98% tin, 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony.
(historical) An alloy of tin and lead.
items made of pewter.
A dark, dull grey colour, like that of the metal.
Of a dark, dull grey colour, like that of the metal.
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
* Spenser
(cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
To furnish; to supply.
(slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
Pewter vessels in general.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 478:
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
(slang, obsolete) Fetters.
(slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
As nouns the difference between pewter and garnish
is that pewter is an alloy of approximately 93–98% tin, 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony while garnish is a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.As a adjective pewter
is of a dark, dull grey colour, like that of the metal.As a verb garnish is
to decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.pewter
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(wikipedia pewter)Alternative forms
* pewtreNoun
Adjective
(head)Derived terms
* pewterer * pewterwareSee also
* touchmark * trifle *garnish
English
Verb
- All within with flowers was garnished .
- By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* garnishee * garnishment * garnishorNoun
(garnishes)- The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
- So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
- Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
- (Fielding)
