Leaf

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Description

1) A very thin sheet of metal. Some metals, such as leaf gold, leaf silver, leaf palladium, leaf platinum, leaf aluminum, leaf tin and metal Dutch metal (brass) are ductile enough to be beaten or rolled into very thin sheets for use in gilding.

2) One sheet of paper in a book.

Synonyms and Related Terms

feuille (Fr.); Blattmetall (Deut.); hoja (Esp.); blad (Ned.); folha (Port.)

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