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Mosaic gold
Answer for the clue "Mosaic gold ", 6 letters:
ormolu
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Made from golden or gilded brass or bronze. n. Golden or gilded brass or bronze used for decorative purposes. v To decorate with gilded ormolu articles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
ormolu \or`mo*lu"\ ([^o]r`m[-o]*l[udd]"), n. [F. or moulu; or gold (L. aurum) + moulu, p. p. of moudre to grind, to mill, L. molere. See Aureate , and Mill .] A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"alloy of copper, zinc, and tin, resembling gold," 1765, from French or moulu , literally "ground gold," from or "gold" (from Latin aurum , from PIE *aus- (2) "gold;" see aureate ) + moulu "ground up," past participle of moudre "to grind," from Latin molere ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ormolu (from French or moulu , signifying ground or pounded gold) is an English term, used since the 18th century for the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold – mercury amalgam to an object of bronze , and for objects finished in ...
Usage examples of ormolu.
The room was full of ormolu clocks and vases, Gobelin tapestries, several gold and silver tea equipages, a brass statue of the Virgin Mary and three immense candle snuffers.
There were ormolu candlesticks, Bessarabian carpets, tale top tables, George III sterling, tea caddies, militia drums, turn-of-the-century jewelry, nineteenth-century mirrors.
Jenny pointed out two moldies whom she said were her close friends: Frangipane, who looked like an orchid blossom, and Ormolu, who looked like a kitschy ornamental cupid.
Across from the brass bed where she lay, sat a beautiful combination writing desk and dressing table, also in tulipwood and also with extensive ormolu.
Everywhere the wainscots were embossed in ormolu or painted with flowers and arabesques.
Shay-Tarrazin knew that time would only exist in its measuring, so he started collecting clocks of every size and description, from a microscopic Russian gold chimer to a twenty-two-foot-high gilded Ormolu state-clock that took fifteen men to carry it.