| 单词 | water gilding |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater gilding water gilding n. any of several methods of gilding, esp. a method of gilding metal using gold amalgam or an aqueous solution of mercury, and a method of gilding wood, leather, etc., in which gold leaf is applied to bole (contrasted with oil gilding); (also) gilt, or an area of gilt, produced by any of these methods. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > methods of parcel-gilding1519 water gilding1703 leaf gilding1746 matting1758 fire gilding1831 mercury gilding1870 pink gilding1873 honey gilding1954 1703 W. Salmon Collectanea Medica Catal. Authors Books Polygraphice...containing..3. Of Painting, Washing, Coloring, Water Gilding. 1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades 169 To gild silver in water-gilding without the assistance of mercury. 1816 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) X. 279/1 This [sc. leaf gilding] is sometimes called water gilding, because the size or gum is mixed up with water; but as this term is also applied to the wash gilding by mercury, it should be avoided. 1855 G. Gore Pract. Chem. 72 The following solutions have been used for gilding by the simple immersion, or ‘water-gilding’ process. 1907 Sc. Hist. Rev. 4 434 The background to the lettering [on the binding] has originally been decorated with water gilding, now almost disappeared. 2006 New Yorker 27 Mar. 43/1 The shinier effect of a burnished water-gilding, would be reserved for the corners. < as lemmas |
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