parcel-gilt

British  

adjective

1. partly gilded, esp (of an item of silverware) having the inner surface gilded

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Etymology

Origin of parcel-gilt

C15: from parcel (in the obsolete adv sense: partly) + _gilt ¹

Example Sentences

Seven pieces of good Gascon wine, a ship that was mine own, and was my father’s before me, a Blessed Mary of plane-tree wood and parcel-gilt, and thirteen pounds in gold and silver.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

From Hyderabad in the Deccan is a parcel-gilt vase, an example of pierced-work, the opus interassile of the Romans.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

A table in the stern was spread with a light collation, which gave an excuse for the display of parcel-gilt cups, silver tankards, and Venetian wine-flasks.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

A betel-leaf and perfume-service in the silver-gilt of Mysore is accompanied by elaborately-chased goblets and rose-water sprinklers in ruddy gold and parcel-gilt, the work of Kashmir and Lucknow.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

The actual amount of plate taken at 'His Majesty's visitation' on this occasion was 1,553 oz gold plate, 6,853 oz. gilt plate, 933 oz. parcel-gilt plate, 190 oz. white plate.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de