gold size

English

Noun

gold size (countable and uncountable, plural gold sizes)

  1. (art) A size (or viscous wash) put down on a surface on which gold leaf is to be applied. [from 17th c.]
    • 1735, Dictionarium Polygraphicum, volume I:
      Whatsoever you would gild must be first drawn with a gold size.
    • 1842, William Thomas Brande, A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art:
      Gold size […] is drying oil mixed with calcined red ochre.

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