1.  = GOLD-LEAF.

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1598.  Epulario, C j. When the Peacocke is rosted, you may gild it with leafe gold.

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1604.  Middleton, F. Hubburd’s T., Wks. (Bullen), VIII. 107. A quaint volume fairly bound up in principal vellum, double-filleted with leaf-gold.

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1727.  W. Mather, Yng. Man’s Comp., 82. Lay a little Leaf-Gold upon a fine Earthen Plate.

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1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 31. Becoming thin by expansion, like leaf-gold.

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  fig.  1672.  Dryden, Marr. à la Mode, IV. iv. The dull French poetry which is so thin, that it is the very leaf-gold of wit.

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  2.  Native gold in the form of laminæ. rare.

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1877.  Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 315. Rich nests of carbonate of lead, filled with leaf-gold, were found.

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