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silver plate
Also silver-plate.
1. a. A thin flat piece of silver.
1526Tindale Matt. xxvii. 5 And he cast doune the sylver plates in the temple and departed. 1563Homilies ii. Agst. Idolatry i. F f j, Shall the goldsmyth couer hym with golde and caste hym into a fourme of syluer plates? 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Silver, A Tincture of Silver [made] by dissolving thin Silver Plates..in Spirit of Nitre. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XV. 37/2 The ring..is first tinned, and then the silver-plate is gently hammered upon it. 1845Athenæum 203 The delicately sensitive film which is formed on the silver plate in the Daguerréotype process. 1865Chambers's Encycl. VII. 509/1 The sensibility of the silver plate was still further increased by Mr. Goddard.
b. A silver dish in the form of a plate.
1710Tatler No. 245 ⁋2 A broad brimmed flat silver plate for sugar with Rhenish wine.
2. collect. Vessels or utensils made of silver or an alloy of silver.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 184 Pewter vessels..compared with silver plate. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. xiii. 1 As silver-plate cleared is counted new, so this Commandment. 1717Ramsay Elegy on Lucky Wood iv, Her peuther glanc'd..Like siller plate. 1851–4Tomlinson's Cycl. Useful Arts (1867) II. 531/1 The alloy of silver and copper used..for the manufacture of silver-plate. 1861Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 45 Round the apartment..was displayed in close array the silver and pewter plate.
Comb.1632Lithgow Trav. x. 469 Areta, his siluer plate keeper.
3. Used as a jocular representation of Fr. s'il vous plaît please. slang.
1919Yank Talk 4/1 (caption) Silver plate! Loan me a coupla francs! 1920Dialect Notes V. 79 Silver plate, s'il vous plaît. ‘More of the mutton, Mr. Brown, silver plate.’ |