What does ormolu mean?
Ormolu means Golden or gilded brass or bronze used for decorative purposes..
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/ˈɔː(ɹ)məˌluː/ · noun
Golden or gilded brass or bronze used for decorative purposes..
Had he deemed it "wisest, best," Mr. O'Donagough was not without the means of furnishing a splendid mansion in very showy style, and yet not leaving a single morsel of lacker, or or-molu, unpaid for.
It is an old-fashioned space of pink-and-green trellis carpet and French ormolu, half-concealed by heavy brocade curtains.
At one of the ormolu tables, near a lamp with a pink shade, Gaston insisted on making at least a partial statement.
"He [R. L. Stevenson] took his mother?" I repeated, off guard, and he replied, turning a quick back flip of satisfaction, "Yeah, and his ormolu clock, and all his furniture from Edinburgh."
But I have seen apartments in the tenure of Americans—men of exceedingly moderate means yet rara aves of good taste—which, in negative merit at least, might vie with any of the or-molued cabinets of our friends across the water.
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Ormolu means Golden or gilded brass or bronze used for decorative purposes..
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Had he deemed it "wisest, best," Mr. O'Donagough was not without the means of furnishing a splendid mansion in very showy style, and yet not leaving a single morsel of lacker, or or-molu, unpaid for.
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