- present participle of silver.
Etymology
Origin of silvering
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It may have been 44 years ago, but how does a Milwaukeean of a certain, silvering age not remember the last time the Brewers were in the World Series?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Screen Goo is highly pigmented and has a little silvering in the paint that reflects light back at lots of different angles.
From The Verge ● Feb. 24, 2020
A thickset Catholic businessman with silvering hair and bloodshot eyes, he was wearing a loose denim shirt.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
A typical example: “The moon is a sickled leopard’s tooth pinned to obsidian, its light silvering the violent undulations scoring the skin of your unforgiving water.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2016
As soon as the silvering began, long before the cider cracked the jugs, there was something wrong.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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