gold leaf
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But this Cobweb Lawn is too thin; a gold Leaf to cover the forgoing poison: For nothing is more plain, that he means, that the King is the Head Conspirator in all this slavery […]"
- "The streets of Nankin are sometimes strewed with gold leaf; very different are those of London: in the midst of their pavements, a great lazy puddle moves muddily along […]"
- "I cannot take a better illustration of this than that of gold leaf, because it brings before us the reason of this apparent difference in the time of the fall."
- "After the gesso was quite smooth and even it was covered with thin layers of tempered bole, to form a colour ground under the gold leaf, and to provide a sleek, lustrous cushion for the under side of the gold to rest on while the burnisher was pressing on the top."
- "All passenger stock is lettered in shaded gold leaf transfers and has never been decorated with either a crest or monogram."
- "Today, gold leaf can be machine-beaten to 0.1 micron and to 0.05 micron when beaten by a skilled craftsman."