silver platen.
1.
a. A thin flat piece of silver.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > coating with silver > silver leaf or plate
silver-foil1439
silver plate1526
leaf silvera1577
plate silver1648
silver-leaf1728
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvii. f. xl And he cast doune the sylver plates in the temple, and departed.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Agst. Idolatry i. sig. F f j Shall the goldsmyth couer hym with golde and caste hym into a fourme of syluer plates?
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Silver Several Preparations are made from it: Particularly, a Tincture of Silver, by dissolving thin Silver Plates, or Silver Shot in Spirit of Nitre.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XV. 37/2 The ring..is first tinned, and then the silver-plate is gently hammered upon it.
1845 Athenæum 203 The delicately sensitive film which is formed on the silver plate in the Daguerréotype process.
1865 Chambers'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.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate
disha700
scuttlec1050
trencherc1308
plattera1325
paten?1340
esquele1371
skelec1400
plat1415
plate?c1450
skewel1567
trencher-plate1580
goggan1586
trench1602
table plate1669
mazarine1673
discus1680
wearing plate1683
silver plate1710
nappy1731
roundel1797
muffin1820
entrée dish1846
pinax1858
1710 Tatler No. 245. ⁋2 A broad brimmed flat silver plate for sugar with Rhenish wine.
2. collective. Vessels or utensils made of silver or an alloy of silver.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [noun] > art of working in silver > articles
silvera1400
presentation silver1511
silver-work1535
silver plate1610
silverware1862
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 184 Pewter vessels..compared with silver plate.
1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xiii. 1) iv. 5 As silver-plate cleared is counted new, so this Commandment.
1717 A. Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood iv Her peuther glanc'd..Like siller plate.
1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 633/1 The alloy of silver and copper used..for the manufacture of silver-plate.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 Round the apartment..was displayed in close array the silver and pewter plate.
3. Used as a jocular representation of French s'il vous plaît please. slang.
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1919 Yank Talk 4/1 (caption) Silver plate! Loan me a coupla francs!
1920 Dial. Notes 5 79 Silver plate, s'il vous plaît. ‘More of the mutton, Mr. Brown, silver plate.’
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