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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An assistant was carefully applying gold leaf to it.
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Different shades of superfine, 22 carat gold leaf are painted on to the hair during the highlighting process.
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Floors and columns were painted to look like marble, and 24-karat gold leaf was applied on molding.
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He also uses gold leaf on mirrors, then paints it to get an antique look.
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Some of the stone vases were partially coated with gold leaf .
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Thirty pages are reproduced in facsimile with gold leaf .
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Yet even as I watched, the gold leaf tilted slowly down toward the vertical, at ever-increasing speed.