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单词 gold foil
释义

gold foil


noun

sheets of gold slightly thicker than gold leaf.

Origin of gold foil

Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325

OTHER WORDS FROM gold foil

gold-foil, adjective

Words nearby gold foil

goldfinny, goldfish, goldfish bowl, gold fixing, Goldflam disease, gold foil, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, gold, golden, Goldi, Goldie's fern, goldilocks
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Example sentences from the Web for gold foil

  • There were casks of spirits and rows of bottles with gold-foil round their necks.

    The Exiles of Faloo|Barry Pain
  • That is just as a dentist jams one little bit of gold-foil home, and then another, and then another.

    How To Do It|Edward Everett Hale
  • Cutting this, he found still a third covering of a finely pounded metal looking like gold-foil.

    The Web of the Golden Spider|Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • A small palm tree was set in the midst of the arena,—the trunk bronze, the leaves one sheen of gold-foil.

    God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis

British Dictionary definitions for gold foil

gold foil

noun

thin gold sheet that is thicker than gold leaf
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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