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silver-foil
Also silver foil.
[silver n. 8.]
1. Silver beaten out thin; silver-leaf.
1439–40Norwich Sacrist's Roll (MS)., Pro thurificacione..cum sylverfoile circumsparso. 1499in T. Sharp Dissert. Cov. Myst. (1825) 35 For colours and gold foyle & sylver foyle for iiij capps. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Argenteus, Argenteum folium, siluerfoile. 1685Cole in Ray's Lett. (1718) 197 Some..covered with a superficies as thin, and exactly of the Colour of silver Foil. 1835Partington's Brit. Cycl. Arts II. 695/1 While the artist draws the paper from between the silver foil and the glass. 1883T. F. Hardwich Photogr. Chem. 103 To illustrate its action in that particular,..place pieces of silver-foil in two test-tubes.
2. = silver paper 2. Cf. foil n.1 4 d.
1944N. Mailer in E. Seaver Cross-Section 338 The captain took out a chocolate bar... He separated a piece of silver foil from his teeth. 1974N. Bentley Inside Information i. 8 He slid the outside wrapping off his bar of Whole Nut... Hidden between the wrapping and the silver foil underneath was a small piece of paper. |