gold leaf
gold leaf noun: gold that is beaten into a thin sheet.
Noun
gold leaf (uncountable)
- 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
- The streets of Nankin are sometimes strewed with gold leaf; very different are those of London: in the midst of their pavements, a great lazy puddle moves muddily along […]1712, The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, volume 4, page 11
gold leaf meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malay and Thai
gold leaf in Tamil
- தங்க இலை
gold leaf in Bengali
- gold beaten into a thin sheet
- সোনালি পাতা śōnali pata
gold leaf in Malay
- gold beaten into a thin sheet
- daun emas
gold leaf in Thai
- gold beaten into a thin sheet
- ทองคำเปลว tɔɔng-kam-bpleeo, ทองใบ
More languagesFewer languages
- gold leaf in Vietnamese
- vàng quỳ
- gold leaf in Myanmar
- ရွှေမျက်ပါး hrwe-myakpa:
Examples of gold leaf in a sentence
- I cannot take a better illustration of this than that of gold leaf, because it brings before us the reason of this apparent difference in the time of the fall.1860 January 7, The Chemical News, page 55:
- All passenger stock is lettered in shaded gold leaf transfers and has never been decorated with either a crest or monogram.1956 May, D. B. McNeill, “The Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
- Today, gold leaf can be machine-beaten to 0.1 micron and to 0.05 micron when beaten by a skilled craftsman.2001, Milton Ohring, Materials Science of Thin Films, page xix:
Forms of gold leaf
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Words formed from gold leaf
Questions about gold leaf
- What does gold leaf mean?
- Gold leaf means gold that is beaten into a thin sheet.
- What is gold leaf in Tamil?
- Gold leaf in Tamil is தங்க இலை. See Gold leaf meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use gold leaf in a sentence?
- I cannot take a better illustration of this than that of gold leaf, because it brings before us the reason of this apparent difference in the time of the fall.
- What part of speech is gold leaf?
- Gold leaf is a noun.
Words near gold leaf in the dictionary
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