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Definition of Sterling silver
1. Noun. A silver alloy with no more than 7.5% copper.
Definition of Sterling silver
1. Noun. An alloy containing not less than 92.5 percent of silver, the remainder usually being copper. ¹
2. Noun. Sterling-silver articles collectively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterling Silver
Literary usage of Sterling silver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn, William Axton Stokes, Edward Ingersoll (1847)
"H. 7. raised the rate of sterling silver coin to forty pence the ounce. ...
Secondly, That the old standard of sterling silver is, that every pound weight ..."
2. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn, William Axton Stokes, Edward Ingersoll (1847)
"H. 1. raised the rate of sterling silver coin to forty pence the ounce. ...
That the old standard of sterling silver is, that every pound weight of Sterling ..."
3. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1899)
"sterling silver Cases.— "With ^4-Hour J)ial and Seconds Dial.—Hated to keep
Sidereal-Time. Every Watch warranted. Sole Manufacturer: C. COOPER. ..."
4. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut by Sarah Johnson Prichard (1896)
"Soon after the Revolution attention appears to have been turned to manufactures
more directly and persistently. BUTTONS OF sterling silver, MADE BY JOSEPH ..."
5. A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm: In a Letter to the King by Charles Jenkinson Liverpool (1880)
"9. the Tower Pound of sterling silver into twenty-two Shillings and six Pence in
tale; and the Pound Sterling in tale was thereby further debased ..."
6. A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm: In a Letter to the King by Charles Jenkinson Liverpool (1880)
"the Tower Pound of sterling silver into twenty-two Shillings and six Pence in
tale; and the Pound Sterling in tale was thereby further debased l-^JV per ..."
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