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ˈgold-foil
Gold beaten out into a thin sheet.
As a mod. technical term, gold-foil denotes a thicker sheet than gold-leaf.
1398[see foil n.1 4]. c1440Promp. Parv. 202/1 Goold⁓fuyle. 1499Acc. in T. Sharp Dissert. Cov. Myst. (1825) 35 For colours and gold foyle & sylver foyle for iiij capps. 1587Golding De Mornay x. 137 Such cloath, wire, or gold-foile, as no man would deeme to haue come of so grosse a matter. 1601Holland Pliny II. 529 A kind of gum or size to lay vnder gold-foile for to guild timber. 1892W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy 273 A spacious apartment blazing with gas and gold-foil. |