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parcel-gilt

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parcel-gilt
adj
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) partly gilded, esp (of an item of silverware) having the inner surface gilded
[from parcel (in the obsolete adv sense: partly) + gilt1]


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On the other hand walnut wood, rarer and more expensive, was used on un-gilded frames or parcel-gilt ?
Late George II parcel-gilt rosewood, padouk and sabicu breakfront bookcase by Thomas Chippendale and his Scottish partner James Rannie.
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