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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

ormolu , finish used on metal to imitate gold. It is employed chiefly for furniture mountings. The term originally applied to a coating of ground gold and was extended to alloys of copper and zinc. Ormolu mountings were characteristic of 18th-century furniture and attained their highest artistic and technical development in France, especially in the work of Charles Cressent, Pierre Gouthière, and Jacques Caffieri. Ormolu was produced on a large scale in England, with Matthew Boulton the chief manufacturer. Workmanship deteriorated in the 19th cent.

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

or·mo·lu / ˈôrməˌloō/ • n. a gold-colored alloy of copper, zinc, and sometimes tin, cast into desired shapes and often gilded, used esp. in the 18th century for decorating furniture and making ornaments.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

ormolu gold leaf, gilded bronze, gold-coloured alloy. XVIII. — F. or moulu ‘ground gold’, i.e. or gold (:— L. aurum), moulu, pp. of moudre :- L. molere grind.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

ormolu •Yalu • igloo • Oulu •Honolulu, KwaZulu, lulu, Zulu •Pagalu • Angelou • ormolu •superglue • curlew

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