Shef|field plate

Shef|field plate
Shef|field plate «SHEHF eeld»,
an especially durable silver plate made by rolling out sheets of copper and silver fused together.
[< Sheffield, a city in England, where the process was perfected]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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