gold leaf

Definition

Gold beaten into a thin sheet.

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."