leaf goldn.
/ˈliːf ˌɡəʊld/, U.S. /ˈlif ˌɡoʊld/ 1. = gold leaf n. b. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > gold leaf or plate
gold-foil1398
gold party1461
fulyie1488
rattle-gold1508
gold plate1549
gold leaf1573
leaf gold1576
feuille1662
gilt leaf1674
ormolu1765
gold plating1843
gold leafing1858
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iv. f. 222 To the water remaining of the ninth distyllation, adde or mixe of leafe Gold [L. foliorum auri], leaues a hundred in number.
1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario Cj When the Peacocke is rosted, you may gild it with leafe gold.
1604 T. Middleton Father Hubburds Tales sig. F3v A quaint volume, fairly bound vp in principal vellum, double filletted with leafe-Gold.
1668 G. Hartman tr. K. Digby Choice Receipts 168 To six ounces of this purified Mercury revivified, put one ounce of leaf Gold, making an Amalgame.
1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iv. iii. 63 The dull French Poetry, which is so thin, that it is the very Leaf-gold of Wit.
1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 82 Lay a little Leaf-Gold upon a fine Earthen Plate.
1742 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 205 If the rubb'd Tube be applied to Leaf-Gold..it will act upon it much longer..than if the same Quantity of Leaf-Gold is laid upon a Table.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 138 Pleasure..may be..too much diffused and spread out, becoming thin by expansion, like leaf-gold.
1861 J. S. Muspratt Chem., Theoret., Pract., & Analyt. II. 290/1 After being hammered another two hours, the leaves acquire the tenuity of ordinary leaf-gold.
1906 T. E. Kirby Catal. Art Coll. H. R Bishop Parts of Kashiwa-leaves are inlaid with mother-of-pearl and squares of leaf-gold.
1963 E. H. Schafer Golden Peaches of Samarkand 252 Leaf gold was used in paintings.
2008 Art Q. Spring 69/2 Patricia Lovett..will demonstrate how tissue-thin leaf gold was added to the pages.
2. Mining. Native gold in the form of laminae.
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1851 Alta California (San Francisco) 1 Jan. 5/5 (heading) Leaf gold from Wood's Diggings.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 315 Rich nests of carbonate of lead, filled with leaf-gold, were..found.
1911 Q. Colorado School Mines Oct. 18 It was from this district that the large and beautiful specimens of wire and leaf gold were taken.
2005 S. B. Shaffer Out of Dust xiii. 117 He would find a rich chimney of white quartz containing leaf gold.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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