silvering

American  

[sil-ver-ing] / ˈsɪl vər ɪŋ /

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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Etymology

Origin of silvering

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

Example Sentences

Screen Goo is highly pigmented and has a little silvering in the paint that reflects light back at lots of different angles.

From The Verge • Feb. 24, 2020

A thickset Catholic businessman with silvering hair and bloodshot eyes, he was wearing a loose denim shirt.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

A typical example: “The moon is a sickled leopard’s tooth pinned to obsidian, its light silvering the violent undulations scoring the skin of your unforgiving water.”

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2016

This will make the inside surface of the clear plastic a perfect mirror for such rays without any need for the silvering used on common mirrors.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

"Tristran?" asked his father, who at five and thirty was still middling tall and still freckled, although there were more than a few silvering hairs in his nut-brown curls.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman