silvering
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English
Definitions
verb
- To acquire a silvery colour.
- To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.“to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury”
- To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
- To make hoary, or white, like silver.
noun
- The process of coating a surface with a thin layer of silver (or a similar metal), especially so as to form a mirror.
- The silver used in this kind of coating.