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gilding Definition:
- The term gilding covers a number of decorative techniques for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold. A gilded object is also described as "gilt". Where metal is gilded, it was traditionally silver in the West, to make silver-gilt objects, but gilt-bronze is commonly used in China, and also called ormolu if it is Western. Methods of gilding include hand application and glueing, chemical gilding, and electroplating, the last also called gold plating. Parcel-gilt objects are only gilded over part of their surfaces. This may mean that all of the inside, and none of the outside, of a chalice or similar vessel is gilded, or that patterns or images are made up by using a combination of gilt and un-gilt areas.
| Electro-gilding (n.) The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity. |
| Gilding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gild |
| Water gilding () The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat |
| gilt / gilding a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold |
| gilding metal a brass that is rich in copper, used to make articles that were to be gilded |
gilding Synonyme:
| staining calcimining coating color printing coloration coloring covering dyeing emblazonry enameling fresco gilding glazing glossing illumination japanning lithography painting pigmentation priming shellacking stippling tinction tinging tinting undercoating varnishing whitewashing |
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| shellacking beating calcimining clobbering coating covering crushing defeat debacle decisive defeat defeasance drubbing enameling fresco gilding glazing glossing japanning licking no contest overthrow overwhelming defeat painting pasting priming rout smashing defeat smearing staining stippling total defeat trouncing undercoating utter defeat vanquishment varnishing whipping whitewash whitewashing whopping |