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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--Talmi gold This week's theme: eponyms. Talmi gold (TAL-mee gold) noun Brass, plated with gold, used in making cheap jewelry. [After Tallois, the French inventor in the 19th century. The term comes to English from German Talmigold, a partial translation of French Tal. mi-or, a contraction of Tallois demi-or, from demi (half) + or (gold).] -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "Talmi-gold and similar trinkets are identical with what they momentarily do for their wearer; genuine jewels are a value that goes beyond this." Georg Simmel; Simmel on Culture; Sage Publications; 1997. X-Bonus We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

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