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gold-leaf

gold-leaf is the alternative form of gold leaf.

Meaning of gold leaf

Noun

gold leaf (uncountable)

  1. Gold that is beaten into a thin sheet.
    • But this Cobweb Lawn is too thin; a gold Leaf to cover the forgoing poison: For nothing is more plain, that he means, that the King is the Head Conspirator in all this slavery […]1697, Remarks Upon a Scurrilous Libel

Phrases with gold-leaf

Questions about gold-leaf

What is gold-leaf the alternative form of?
Gold-leaf is the alternative form of gold leaf.

Words near gold-leaf in the dictionary

  1. gold-knap
  2. gold-knaps
  3. gold-knop
  4. gold-knops
  5. gold-laced
  6. gold-leaf
  7. gold-leaf electrometer
  8. gold-leaf electrometers
  9. gold-leaf electroscope
  10. gold-leaf electroscopes
  11. gold-leaf galvanoscope

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