gold foil
sheets of gold slightly thicker than gold leaf.
Origin of gold foil
1Other words from gold foil
- gold-foil, adjective
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How to use gold foil in a sentence
A small palm tree was set in the midst of the arena,—the trunk bronze, the leaves one sheen of gold-foil.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisThe bottles in which Vino Regalis was sold had yards of gold foil wrapped round their necks.
The Island Mystery | George A. BirminghamThis tomb contained also a string of beads, barrel beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian and gold foil, and small discs of gold.
El Kab | J.E. QuibellA slip of zinc foil was folded round a narrow plate made of gold foil, and introduced into the solution.
The Action of Medicines in the System | Frederick William HeadlandSmithson's pile consists of a small plate of copper around which a piece of thin gold foil is wrapped.
Legal Chemistry | A. Naquet
British Dictionary definitions for gold foil
thin gold sheet that is thicker than gold leaf
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