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Water gilding

Wa"ter gild"ing\ The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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