gold leaf
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4.3
- noun
- /ɡoʊld liːf/
:
hoja de oro
- The artist used gold leaf to add a luxurious touch to the painting.
- gold leaf and wood
- gold leaf frame
This is like clear acrylic, acrylic paint, spray paint, some imitation gold leaf that I found online.
- This is like clear acrylic, acrylic paint, spray paint, some imitation gold leaf that I found online.
- We are covered with gold leaf.
- But they're like a plastic gold leaf and I thought they would be cool since we're going for a gold and white.
- Wait, let me tell you, a gold TV And he put gold leaf around the famous mantelpiece in the Oval Office that, you know, from TV.
Examples
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Nothing was torn down; it was merely enhanced, tuck-pointed, landscaped, and covered in gold leaf.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Serenissima was a fifteenth-century prayer book adorned with gold leaf, semiprecious stones, and lots of bright enamel.
Fiction book (2001) -
Gray placed some gold leaf in front of him.
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The ceiling is gold leaf.
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Some time ago, I received these gold leaf pieces for nail art from Born Pretty Store to review.
Blog text (11) -
And this is going to provide the undercoat on top of which the gold leaf is going to be applied.
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And despite the gold leaf, the carved wood, the heavily embossed leather, it's actually very much a working chamber.
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In the village of Rossiniere, in Switzerland, Ann is handed a piece of gold leaf to eat.
Fiction book (1995) -
Some splendid statues glisten with gold leaf that devotees have burnished onto their bodies.
Academic text (2003) -
There seemed to be a lot of brocade- and silk-covered furniture, small marble-topped tables, and gold-leaf framed paintings.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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8.0
A thin layer of gold put on a surface to make it shine
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3.9
Very thin sheets of gold used to decorate things like frames and art
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7.0
A thin layer of gold or metal that looks like gold on a surface for decoration
How Thin
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'very thin sheets of gold' is directly and literally derived from combining 'gold' (the metal) with 'leaf' (a thin sheet or layer), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to sheets of gold used for decoration. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows regular noun-noun compounding, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Gold leaf comes from the image of a very thin leaf made of gold that you can lay over a surface. These delicate sheets are used to cover and decorate objects, so the term means thin sheets of gold for 'decoration'.