ormolu
To decorate with gilded ormolu articles.
But I have seen apartments in the tenure of Americans—men of exceedingly moderate means yet rara aves of good taste—which, in negative merit at least, might vie with any of the or-molued cabinets of our friends across the water.
Where it comes from
From French or moulu (literally “ground gold”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry ormolu (CC BY-SA 4.0).