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gold foil

American  

noun

  1. sheets of gold slightly thicker than gold leaf.

gold foil British  

noun

  1. thin gold sheet that is thicker than gold leaf

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Origin of gold foil

Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325

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Gold foil may be cut to any shape and sewn on to embroidery, but spangles take mainly one of two shapes, best distinguished as disc-like and ring-like.

From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary

Gold foil is the best for our purposes; coin, however, answers, in most cases, for the daguerreotype operator, as the alloy, being so slight is not noticed in the gilding process.

From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight)

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