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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gold leaf
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An assistant was carefully applying gold leaf to it.
▪ Different shades of superfine, 22 carat gold leaf are painted on to the hair during the highlighting process.
▪ Floors and columns were painted to look like marble, and 24-karat gold leaf was applied on molding.
▪ He also uses gold leaf on mirrors, then paints it to get an antique look.
▪ Some of the stone vases were partially coated with gold leaf.
▪ Thirty pages are reproduced in facsimile with gold leaf.
▪ Yet even as I watched, the gold leaf tilted slowly down toward the vertical, at ever-increasing speed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gold leaf

Gold \Gold\ (g[=o]ld), n. [AS. gold; akin to D. goud, OS. & G. gold, Icel. gull, Sw. & Dan. guld, Goth. gul[thorn], Russ. & OSlav. zlato; prob. akin to E. yellow. [root]49, 234. See Yellow, and cf. Gild, v. t.]

  1. (Chem.) A metallic element of atomic number 79, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat (melting point 1064.4[deg] C), moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au ( Aurum). Atomic weight 196.97.

    Note: Native gold contains usually eight to ten per cent of silver, but often much more. As the amount of silver increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific gravity lower. Gold is very widely disseminated, as in the sands of many rivers, but in very small quantity. It usually occurs in quartz veins (gold quartz), in slate and metamorphic rocks, or in sand and alluvial soil, resulting from the disintegration of such rocks. It also occurs associated with other metallic substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined with tellurium in the minerals petzite, calaverite, sylvanite, etc. Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use, and is hardened by alloying with silver and copper, the latter giving a characteristic reddish tinge. [See Carat.] Gold also finds use in gold foil, in the pigment purple of Cassius, and in the chloride, which is used as a toning agent in photography.

  2. Money; riches; wealth.

    For me, the gold of France did not seduce.
    --Shak.

  3. A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.

  4. Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold. --Shak. Age of gold. See Golden age, under Golden. Dutch gold, Fool's gold, Gold dust, etc. See under Dutch, Dust, etc. Gold amalgam, a mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury. Gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. Gold beetle (Zo["o]l.), any small gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelid[ae]; -- called also golden beetle. Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. --Knight. Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7. Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing. Gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry. Gold-end man.

    1. A buyer of old gold or jewelry.

    2. A goldsmith's apprentice.

    3. An itinerant jeweler. ``I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man.'' --B. Jonson. Gold fever, a popular mania for gold hunting. Gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold. Gold finder.

      1. One who finds gold.

      2. One who empties privies. [Obs. & Low]
        --Swift.

        Gold flower, a composite plant with dry and persistent yellow radiating involucral scales, the Helichrysum St[oe]chas of Southern Europe. There are many South African species of the same genus.

        Gold foil, thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and others. See Gold leaf.

        Gold knobs or Gold knoppes (Bot.), buttercups.

        Gold lace, a kind of lace, made of gold thread.

        Gold latten, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal.

        Gold leaf, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil.

        Gold lode (Mining), a gold vein.

        Gold mine, a place where gold is obtained by mining operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf. Gold diggings (above).

        Gold nugget, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; -- called also a pepito.

        Gold paint. See Gold shell.

        Gold pheasant, or Golden pheasant. (Zo["o]l.) See under Pheasant.

        Gold plate, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold.

        Mosaic gold. See under Mosaic.

Wiktionary
gold leaf

n. gold beaten into a thin sheet.

WordNet
gold leaf

n. a very thin form of gold foil

Wikipedia
Gold leaf (disambiguation)

A gold leaf is a thin gold foil used for decoration.

Gold leaf may also refer to:

  • Gold Leaf Award, a precursor of the Juno Awards
  • Gold-leaf electroscope, a historical scientific instrument
Gold leaf

Gold leaf is gold that has been hammered into thin sheets by goldbeating and is often used for gilding. Gold leaf is available in a wide variety of karats and shades. The most commonly used gold is 22-karat yellow gold.

Gold leaf is a type of metal leaf, but the term is rarely used when referring to gold leaf. The term metal leaf is normally used for thin sheets of metal of any color that do not contain any real gold. Pure gold is 24 karats. Real yellow gold leaf is about 91.7% pure gold. Silver colored white gold is approximately 50% pure gold.

Layering gold leaf over a surface is called gold leafing or gilding. Traditional water gilding is the most difficult and highly regarded form of gold leafing. It has remained virtually unchanged for hundreds of years and is still done by hand.