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silver gilt
Also silver-gilt.
1. Gilt silver or silverware.
1422in E.E. Wills (1882) 50 Also I bequeth to Ionet Knolles a stondyng cuppe of siluer gilte couered. 1487Paston Lett. III. 463 A playn standing cupp of silver gilt. 1533Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 13 No man shall weare..any maner aglettes, buttons, broches of golde or silver gilte. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 25 Some will not sticke to sell you siluer gilt for gold. 1684Evelyn Diary 17 Dec., Cover'd with chaines of silver gilt. 1844A. P. de Lisle in E. Purcell Life (1900) I. vii. 123 In the sacristy is the shrine of St. Engelbert made of silver gilt. 1886Guide Exhib. Galleries Brit. Mus. 180 A group of horsemen and prostrate figure, beaten out in silver gilt. Found at Perugia.
fig.1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. I. iv. 133 Amy..was pure gold: Angelina..was only silver-gilt.
b. attrib. or as adj. Made of silver gilt.
1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4099/1 The Envoy was served in Silver-Gilt Plate. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xlvii, He sported a silver-gilt snuff-box which was presented to him. 1895Jewitt & Hope Corporation Plate I. 240 The earliest pieces in point of date are the magnificent silver-gilt rose⁓water dish and ewer.
2. An imitation of gilding, consisting of silver-foil varnished with a yellow lacquer.
1891in Cent. Dict.
So † silver-gilted a. Obs.—1
1560–1Will of M. Bisset (Somerset Ho.), My silver gilted caul with chains. |