Meaning of or-molu | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of ormolu.

alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable

Examples

“...as Hortense says of her drawing-room's Sevres china, and or-molu, "C'est plus qu'utile, c'est nécessaire."”

“Had he deemed it "wisest, best," Mr. O'Donagough was not without the means of furnishing a splendid mansion in very showy style, and yet not leaving a single morsel of lacker, or or-molu, unpaid for.”

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