or-molu

English

Noun

or-molu (countable and uncountable, plural or-molus)

  1. Dated 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."
    • 1840, Frances Trollope, “Practical Information Carefully Obtained, and Promptly Acted upon— […]”, in The Widow Married; […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 2:
      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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