Metallicize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make metallic. transitive

    "Designers tend to get noticed when they make big things: theres an enthusiastic but ultimately limited market for, say, his Mirror Ball, S-Chair or the new Slab Table (an oak table, metallicized to a mirror finish, which he showed at the Milan Furniture Fair last spring)."

Example

More examples

"Designers tend to get noticed when they make big things: theres an enthusiastic but ultimately limited market for, say, his Mirror Ball, S-Chair or the new Slab Table (an oak table, metallicized to a mirror finish, which he showed at the Milan Furniture Fair last spring)."

Etymology

From metallic + -ize.

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