or-molu
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[edit]Noun
[edit]or-molu (countable and uncountable, plural or-molus)
- Alternative form of ormolu
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 199:
- ...as Hortense says of her drawing-room's Sevres china, and or-molu, "C'est plus qu'utile, c'est nécessaire."