Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
article of plate
English answer:
utensils made of silver or gold or plated with silver / gold
English term
article of plate
3 +1 | utensils made of silver or gold |
Caryl Swift
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4 +3 | an object plated with gold or silver |
B D Finch
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Jul 21, 2012 12:20: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"
Jul 26, 2012 07:40: Caryl Swift Created KOG entry
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utensils made of silver or gold
"bowls, cups and other utensils made of silver or gold".
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Note added at 9 mins (2012-07-21 12:29:40 GMT)
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My apologies. I should have written 'utensil made of silver or gold', since your question is in the silngular.
Also. I mistyped the quotation. It should say:
"bowls, cups and other utensils made of gold or silver"
Here's a reference you can see, rather than one that's just quoted:
12. Household articles, such as hollowware, covered with a precious metal, such as silver or gold. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/plate)
Wikipedia sticks with silver:
Household silver or silverware (the silver, the plate) includes tableware, cutlery and other household items made of sterling silver, Britannia silver or Sheffield plate silver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_(household)
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Note added at 17 mins (2012-07-21 12:37:31 GMT)
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"PLATE. The word " plate " (connected with Gr. irX ar(r, flat, Late Lat. plata lamina, and Span. plata, silver), in the sense to which it is restricted in the following article, is employed to denote works in silver cr gold which belong to any class other than those of personal ornaments or coins."
(http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Plate)
an object plated with gold or silver
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Note added at 12 mins (2012-07-21 12:32:19 GMT)
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I decided to look this up in my Collins dictionary, as I was surprised at Caryl's answer and Collins gives both meanings, i.e. either coated with gold or silver or made of gold or silver. However, I think that the former is the more usual meaning.
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Note added at 16 mins (2012-07-21 12:36:14 GMT)
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"Sheffield plate is a layered combination of silver and copper that was used for many years to produce a wide range of household articles."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_plate
"Gold plating is a method of depositing a thin layer of gold onto the surface of another metal, most often copper or silver (to make silver-gilt), by chemical or electrochemical plating. This article covers plating methods used in the modern electronics industry; for more traditional methods, often used for much larger objects, see gilding."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_plate
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Jenni Lukac (X)
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Kate Collyer
: as the wealth implied is relatively low (only spoons and jug silvered, and the jug not elegant)
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Veronika McLaren
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