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Decorate, as a book
Answer for the clue "Decorate, as a book ", 4 letters:
gild
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Word definitions for gild in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English gyldan "to gild, to cover with a thin layer of gold," from Proto-Germanic *gulthian (cognates: Old Norse gylla "to gild," Old High German ubergulden "to cover with gold"), from *gulthan "gold" (see gold ). Related: Gilded ; gilding . Figuratively ...
Usage examples of gild.
To her all the wreckage of the slums, all the woe lying beneath gilded life, all the abominations, all the tortures that remain unknown, were carried.
And while he still knew that the slim length of thousand-folded steel and hand-cast gilded bronze was more than proficient enough to see him elevated from apprentice smith to master and therefore to adulthood, he was not at all certain it would suffice to pass one final, and more important, muster.
She could see the Alfa parked below, the moonlight gilding its dark green paint.
With the lac ammoniacum thus prepared, draw with a pencil, or write with a pen on paper, or vellum, the intended figure or letters of the gilding.
First we passed the Aureate, vast twin gilded domes of the Breasts on the skyline.
His Majesty sat on a low dais, in a gilded and padded chair beneath a baldachin hung behind and on either side with weighty purple velvet to shut out the draughts.
Petersburg just as the first rays of the sun began to gild the horizon.
The furnishings, too, were all gilded and begemmed, bed and chairs and benches, wardrobes and chests and washstand.
And then as regarded fashion, it might perhaps not be beyond the power of a Mrs Proudie to begild the word with a newly burnished gilding.
The enclosure of the bema, with its columns and entablatures, was of silver gilt, and set with gems and pearls.
Delicately carved and lightly gilded white boiserie paneled the walls.
When Albert returned to his mother, he found her in the boudoir reclining in a large velvet armchair, the whole room so obscure that only the shining spangle, fastened here and there to the drapery, and the angles of the gilded frames of the pictures, showed with some degree of brightness in the gloom.
Thy Bucentaur is no longer the bravest craft that floats between Dalmatia and the islands, though her gilding may glitter brightest.
Penobscot Building and the second Buhl Building colored like an Indian belt, the New Union Trust Building, the Cadillac Tower, the Fisher Building with its gilded roof.
The bureaucrat stood before a set of gilded doors that opened into the Hall of Supreme Harmony.