gilding metal

1. 1.

   a brass that is rich in copper; used to make articles that were to be gilded

   Broaderbrass

Questions about gilding metal

What does gilding metal mean?

gilding metal means "a brass that is rich in copper; used to make articles that were to be gilded".

Is gilding metal a common word?

gilding metal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.