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verb

Gild v. t. (past & past part. gilded or gilt; pres. part. gilding)

To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." "No more the rising sun shall gild the morn."

To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. "Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day."

To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.

To make red with drinking. (Obs.) "This grand liquior that hath gilded them."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gilded" Quotes from Famous Books

... more; but to contemplate the ship-builder's son—the grandson of a freedman—a Christian and devoted to the Emperor, even though he were a prefect or of even higher grade—as a possible suitor for her Gorgo, the beautiful heiress of the greater part of her wealth—the centre of attraction to all the gilded youth of Alexandria—this was too much for her philosophy; and, as she had never in her life restrained the expression of her sentiments, though she gave him a friendly hand and the usual greeting, she very soon showed him, by her irony and impertinence, that she was ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... of day was descending into the dense bank of cloud afore mentioned, the watchman marked the sheen of spear and lance, gilded by the departing rays, where the road left the forest. Immediately he blew the huge curved horn which he carried at his belt; and at the blast the inhabitants of the castle and village poured forth; loud shouts of joy rent the air—the deeper exclamations of the aged, the glad huzzas of ...

— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake

... flee before me, when the breath Of worship smote her with strange death, Withered her gilded garment, broke her sword, Shattered her graven images and smote All her light sorrows thro' the breast and throat Whose death-cry ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... came in, pulling aside the heavy curtains that hung in the arched entrance. With a granite Osiris flanking her slim figure on one side and a gilded sarcophagus on the other, she burst upon the visitor, a radiant vision in white. The light gleamed through her soft, brown hair forming a halo for a face that Robert Cairn knew for the sweetest ...

— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer

... basket[16] from this service is in the United States National Museum. The shallow basket is on a pedestal with handles on each side. The inside of the basket is gilded. Inscribed on a ...

— Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology • Margaret Brown Klapthor

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