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BRUMMAGEM (an old local form of " Bir...

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 680 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRUMMAGEM (an old
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local form of "
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Birmingham ")
, a name first applied to a counterfeit coin made in the city of
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Birmingham, England, in the 17th century, and later to the plated and imitation articles made there; hence cheap, showy or
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tawdry .

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