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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.
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Examples
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They are electro-gilt -- that is, the gilding is fixed on them by means of a bath through which an electric current passes.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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He got down from Sydney, too, a quantity of showy electro-gilt jewellery and fancy beads, with common knives, pistols, guns, and hatchets for presents, saying to me that a showy present would work our way better with a savage chief than a great deal of fighting, and he proved to be quite right in all he said.
Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea George Manville Fenn 1870
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