gold leaf

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   a very thin form of gold foil

   Broadergold foil

Questions about gold leaf

What does gold leaf mean?

gold leaf means "a very thin form of gold foil".

Is gold leaf a common word?

gold leaf 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.