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silvering

[ sil-ver-ing ]

noun

  1. the act or process of coating with silver or a substance resembling silver.
  2. the coating thus applied:

    the silvering of the mirror.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of silvering1

First recorded in 1700–10; silver + -ing 1
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Example Sentences

If you dip a gold ring or a sovereign into quicksilver, it will be silvered by it, and the silvering will not come off.

Then mix both liquids together in the silvering vessel and suspend the glass to be silvered face downwards in the solution.

The silvering being finished, the sheets are dipped along two parallel edges in 75 per cent nitric acid.

And here and there, silvering the bushes, the elder offered its snowy tribute to the summer.

Presently through the trees they saw the moonlight silvering the placid water.

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