ormolu

1. 1.

   brass that looks like gold; used to decorate furniture

   Broaderbrass

Other forms of ormolu

plural

ormolus·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ormolu

What does ormolu mean?

ormolu means "brass that looks like gold; used to decorate furniture".

How many syllables are in ormolu?

ormolu has 3 syllables and divides as or-mo-lu under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.