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Gilded metal
Answer for the clue "Gilded metal ", 6 letters:
ormolu
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A red lens in ormolu casing was clamped over his left eye, and perhaps had replaced the original jelly organ. ▪ Around 1834 his father took up business as a gilder and ormolu manufacturer in London. ▪ Each of the legs of the ...
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 ...
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.