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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
terne /təːn/

▶noun a lead alloy containing about 20 per cent tin and often some antimony, used for plating steel.

– origin C19: prob. from Fr. terne ‘dull, tarnished’.

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