gold foil

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   foil made of gold

   Broaderfoil

   Narrowergold leaf

Questions about gold foil

What does gold foil mean?

gold foil means "foil made of gold".

Is gold foil a common word?

gold foil is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.