gold foil
noun
sheets of gold slightly thicker than gold leaf.
Origin of gold foil
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325
OTHER WORDS FROM gold foil
gold-foil, adjectiveWords nearby gold foil
gold dust,
gold farming,
gold fever,
gold field,
gold fixing,
gold foil,
gold leaf,
gold medal,
gold mine,
gold mining,
gold note
Example sentences from the Web for gold foil
There were casks of spirits and rows of bottles with gold-foil round their necks.
The Exiles of Faloo |Barry PainThat is just as a dentist jams one little bit of gold-foil home, and then another, and then another.
How To Do It |Edward Everett HaleCutting this, he found still a third covering of a finely pounded metal looking like gold-foil.
The Web of the Golden Spider |Frederick Orin BartlettA small palm tree was set in the midst of the arena,—the trunk bronze, the leaves one sheen of gold-foil.
God Wills It! |William Stearns Davis
British Dictionary definitions for gold foil
gold foil
noun
thin gold sheet that is thicker than gold leaf