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How to say to apply gold leaf
in Thai
ปิดทอง
bpìt-taawng
to apply gold leaf
bpìt lowtaawng mid
Worshippers press gold leaf onto Buddha images. ปิดทองหลังพระ "gilding the Buddha's back" = doing good no one sees.
- Part of speech
- verb
In a sentence
- ปิดทองพระbpìt-taawng prágild a Buddha image
The culture behind it
CULTURE
How to read a temple
From the same situation: Arts, design, architecture
- ศิลปะart
- ภาพวาดpainting, drawing
- วาดto draw, to paint (a picture)
- ระบายสีto colour in, to paint in colours
- สีน้ำwatercolour
- พู่กันpaintbrush (for art)
- จิตรกรรมpainting (the art form), murals
- จิตรกรpainter (fine art)
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