gold size

noun

A size (or viscous wash) put down on a surface on which gold leaf is to be applied.

First used 17th c.
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Meanings

noungold size (countable and uncountable, plural gold sizes)

plural gold sizes · alternative goldsize

  1. countableuncountableartA size (or viscous wash) put down on a surface on which gold leaf is to be applied.First known use 17th c.

    Gold size […] is drying oil mixed with calcined red ochre.

    1842, William Thomas Brande, A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art
    1 more example

    Whatsoever you would gild must be first drawn with a gold size.

    1735, Dictionarium Polygraphicum, volume I
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