parcel-gilt

British  

adjective

1. partly gilded, esp (of an item of silverware) having the inner surface gilded

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Etymology

Origin of parcel-gilt

C15: from parcel (in the obsolete adv sense: partly) + _gilt ¹

Example Sentences

Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

The chased parcel-gilt ware of Kashmir occupies three cases: it is graven through the gold to the dead-white silver below, softening the lustre of the gold to a pearly radiance.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

A table in the stern was spread with a light collation, which gave an excuse for the display of parcel-gilt cups, silver tankards, and Venetian wine-flasks.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Seven pieces of good Gascon wine, a ship that was mine own, and was my father’s before me, a Blessed Mary of plane-tree wood and parcel-gilt, and thirteen pounds in gold and silver. 

From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis

It shows, besides, some of the gemmed and enamelled work and parcel-gilt ware for which that territory, hidden away among the Himalayas, is so celebrated.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various