Skewings!

This guy is accipitrine

As a little addendum to my previous post I've just learnt that the technical term for the little bits of gold leaf left over after gilding (as in this picture here) are called skewings. How great is that :-)

Along with two further excellent words I've learnt this week: accipitrine (meaning of the falcon kind; hawk-like); and sybaritic (characterized by or devoted to excessive luxury (that's me!)) I'm feeling rather pleased with myself!