ungildv.
(un- prefix2 1b.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > gild and silver [verb (transitive)] > remove gilding
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dedorer, to vngild.
1651 T. Stanley Poems 209 Night began to ungild the skies.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 16 Vice sinks in her Allurements, is ungilt, And looks, like other Objects, black by Night.
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 205/2 Iron and steel articles are ungilt..by dipping them into [etc.].
Derivatives
unˈgilding n. (also attributive).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > removing
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1641 J. Milton Animadversions 59 By all this wee may conjecture, how little wee neede feare that the unguilding of our Prelates will prove the woodening of our Priests.
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 205/2 Removing the gold from articles..which cannot be submitted to the ungilding bath.
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