As a substance (without plural): Metal hammered or rolled into a thin sheet; often with the name of a metal prefixed; as, gold-foil, silver-foil, tin…

Chiefly Scottish gold party n. also party gold beaten gold, gold leaf. Obsolete.

Gold leaf.

Gold leaf or tinsel.

Gold in a thin, flat sheet or layer; (now esp.) a layer of gold electroplated or otherwise applied as a coating to another metal. Cf. gold plating, n.…

In singular. Gold in this form used in decoration, gilding, etc.

= gold leaf, n. b. Also figurative.

A thin plate; a leaf. Obsolete.

gold leaf or (in later use also) an imitation of this.

Originally: gold or gold leaf ground and prepared for gilding brass, bronze, or other metal. Later: gilded bronze or a gold-coloured alloy of…

Gold in a thin, flat sheet or layer; (now esp.) a layer of gold electroplated or otherwise applied as a coating to another metal. Also: the action…

Gold-leaf as a decoration. Also: the action of applying gold leaf to something.