| 单词 | water-gold |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater-gold water-gold n. now rare gilt produced by water gilding; = water-gilt adj. and n. (b); also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > gilt goldeOE gilt1429 water-gold1634 oil gold1710 gilt-bronze1745 honey-gold1852 vermeil1858 pink gold1873 honey gilding1954 1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art iv. 163 (heading) How to gild Silver, or Brasse, with water-gold. 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. ii. 72 The amalgam of gold with mercury..is used principally by the workmen in gilding in water-gold, termed water-gilders. 1840 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights (1841) III. xxii. 220 I command thee to build for me, during this night, a lofty palace, and to decorate it with water-gold. 1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence i, in Men & Women II. 30 In the valley beneath, where, white and wide, Washed by the morning's water-gold, Florence lay out on the mountain side. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Ladybird: Fox: Captain's Doll 27 Her hair glinted heavy, like water-gold. < as lemmas |
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