Definition of Silverplate

1. Verb. Plate with silver. "Silverplate a watch"

Exact synonyms: Silver-plate
Generic synonyms: Plate
Derivative terms: Silver Plate, Silver Plate, Silver Plate, Silver Plate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silverplate

silvering
silverings
silverish
silverization
silverize
silverized
silverizes
silverizing
silverleaf nightshade
silverless
silverlike
silverling
silverlings
silverly
silvern
silverplate (current term)
silverplated
silverpoint
silverpoints
silverrod
silvers
silverside
silversides
silverskin
silverskin onion
silverskins
silversmith
silversmithies
silversmithing
silversmithings

Literary usage of Silverplate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Calendar of Wills on File and Recorded in the Offices of the Clerk of the by Berthold Fernow, New York (State). Court of Appeals, New York (State). Secretary's Office (1896)
"... personal estate (a silver- hilted sword, silverplate). Executors the two brothers. ... silverplate ..."

2. Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler: During the by Benjamin Franklin Butler, Jessie Ames Marshall (1917)
"Some of his property when he fled from New Orleans was left there, among which was the silverplate in question, and probably left in this Mrs. Ferguson's ..."

3. The Eizenstat Report and Related Issues Concerning United States and Allied edited by James A. Leach (1999)
"A good part of the material was found to be best disposed of by smelting, refining, and selling it in bar form.36 The balance—rugs, diamonds, silverplate, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Among the manufactures of the borough of Bristol are clocks, woollen goods, iron castings, hardware, brass ware, silverplate ind bells. ..."

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