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leaf-gold
1. = gold-leaf.
1598Epulario Cj, When the Peacocke is rosted, you may gild it with leafe gold. 1604Middleton F. Hubburd's T. Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 107 A quaint volume fairly bound up in principal vellum, double-filleted with leaf-gold. 1727W. Mather Yng. Man's Comp. 82 Lay a little Leaf-Gold upon a fine Earthen Plate. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 31 Becoming thin by expansion, like leaf-gold.
fig.1672Dryden Marr. à la Mode iv. iv, The dull French poetry which is so thin, that it is the very leaf-gold of wit.
2. Native gold in the form of laminæ. rare.
1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 315 Rich nests of carbonate of lead, filled with leaf-gold, were..found. |