ormolu.

Gilded bronze used for ornamental fittings, or the traditional process that produced such gilding.

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Words that belong together

• ormolu mounts
• ormolu clock
• ormolu decoration

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Ormolu mounts framed the cabinet’s corners.

The clock’s ormolu decoration caught the candlelight.

The conservator examined the worn ormolu before cleaning it.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Usually mass noun. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.