ormolu

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Made from golden or gilded brass or bronze.

   “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."”

verb

1. To decorate with gilded ormolu articles.

   “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.”