gilding

UK/ˈɡɪldɪŋ/US/ˈɡɪldɪŋ/

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Gilding is a thin covering of gold laid over a surface. Restore the gilding, the gilding has worn, gold leaf gilding.

The leaf used is beaten thinner than a thousandth of a millimetre, so a very little gold covers a great deal. Gilding the lily is the fixed phrase for improving something already fine, and it misquotes Shakespeare.

Definitions of gilding

1noungildingA thin covering of gold laid over a surface.C1
“The gilding on the church dome shone in the evening sun.”

gilding is a covering.

Practised in Antiques & Collecting

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gilding in the wild

Starting in 1944, shell casings made of gilding metal were melted down by the United States Mint to be made into pennies.
Gilding metal
Modern gilding is applied to numerous and diverse surfaces and by various processes.
Gilding
Sizing is used for oil-based surface preparation for gilding (sometimes called mordant in this context).
Sizing
Glomy's technique was a relatively simple one of applying decorative designs in a combination of plain colour and gilding, usually to glass picture frames.
Verre églomisé
In the gilding process, the silver, gold or other metal leaf is fixed using a gelatin adhesive which, after steaming, results in a mirror-like, reflective finish.
Verre églomisé

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