ormolu

Etymology

From French or moulu (literally “ground gold”).

noun

  1. Golden or gilded brass or bronze used for decorative purposes.

adj

  1. Made from golden or gilded brass or bronze.
    "He [R. L. Stevenson] took his mother?" I repeated, off guard, and he replied, turning a quick back flip of satisfaction, "Yeah, and his ormolu clock, and all his furniture from Edinburgh." May 17, 1997, Marianne Macdonald, “Who is Paul Theroux?”, in Independent (UK)

verb

  1. To decorate with gilded ormolu articles.
    But I have seen apartments in the tenure of Americans—men of exceedingly moderate means yet rara aves of good taste—which, in negative merit at least, might vie with any of the or-molued cabinets of our friends across the water. 1840, E.A.Poe, The Philosophy of Furniture

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