electroplate

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We went on past a display of electroplate with a card about presents in the window, past a window full of white flowers, past a carriage-builder's and a glove shop.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

She made use of it as, on occasions requiring a show of lavishness, people eke out a meager supply of silver with plenty of plausible electroplate.

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil

It has turned the electroplate workshops of the town on to making steel helmets, and in general has been "working in" the smaller engineering concerns so as to make them feed the larger ones.

From The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend by Choate, Joseph Hodges

These numerous little holes present a difficult surface for making a good wax mold when an electroplate is made for printing.

From Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 by Stewart, A. A.

A metallic surface which it is intended to electroplate must, as has been mentioned, be scrupulously clean.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard