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gold leaf en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (uncountable) Gold that is beaten into a thin sheet.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • After the gesso was quite smooth and even it was covered with thin layers of tempered bole, to form a colour ground under the gold leaf, and to provide a sleek, lustrous cushion for the under side of the gold to rest on while the burnisher was pressing on the top. 1956, Daniel Varney Thompson, The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting:
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

gold-leaf electroscope · gold-leaf electrometer · gold-leaf galvanoscope

Translations (47)

la bractea (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · my ရွှေမျက်ပါး (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · da bladguld (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · it foglia d'oro (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · pt folha de ouro (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · th ทองใบ (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · ro foiță de aur (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · bn সোনালি পাতা (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · de Blattgold (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · ms daun emas (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · shn ၶႅပ်းၶမ်း (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · nn bladgull (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · km ដំបារមាស (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · nb bladgull (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · cmn 金箔 (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · fr feuille d'or (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · vi vàng quỳ (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · nl bladgoud (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · el φύλλο χρυσού (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · lo ຄຳປິວ (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · mn ялтсан алт (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · de Goldblatt (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · it foglia oro (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · is blaðgull (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · vo goldabled (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · ja 金箔 (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · ca pa d'or (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · hu aranyfüst (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · fi lehtikulta (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · uk сухозлітне золото (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · es pan de oro (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · mnw ထဝ်တၞး (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · ka ოქროფურცელი (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · pl złoto płatkowe (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · tr altın varak (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · mnw တၞးထဝ် (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · be сусальнае золата (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · ru сусальное золото (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · sv bladguld (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · eu urre-xafla (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · gl folla de ouro (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · mk ва́рак (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · et lehtkuld (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · ko 금박 (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · th ทองคำเปลว (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · eo orfolio (gold beaten into a thin sheet) · el λεπτό φύλλο χρυσού (gold beaten into a thin sheet)