[a. L. albāt-a fem. of albātus whitened, clothed in white.] A metallic composition imitating silver; white metal, German silver.
1848. Bachel. Albany, 111. The argentine and the albata did their best to look silvery.
1860. Sala, Baddington Peerage, III. xlv. 180. He was not the genuine article, but a substitute, a kind of albata or Sheffield plate, very serviceable and useful, but not the real thing.
