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A coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
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gilding
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding .] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. ``Gilded chariots.'' --Pope. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of gilding," mid-15c.; "golden surface produced by gilding," 1630s; verbal noun from gild (v.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The art of applying gold leaf to a surface 2 (context uncountable English) Gold leaf 3 (context countable English) A coating of gold, etc. vb. (present participle of gild English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term gilding covers a number of decorative techniques for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold . A gilded object is described as "gilt". Where metal is gilded, it was traditionally ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold [syn: gilt ]
Usage examples of gilding.
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.
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.
Thy Bucentaur is no longer the bravest craft that floats between Dalmatia and the islands, though her gilding may glitter brightest.
But when I heard him speak with beautiful flowers of rhetoric for the purpose of gilding the bitter pill, I could not help bursting into a joyous laughter, and I astounded his reverence when I expressed my readiness to go anywhere he might think right to send me.
But she was given no opportunity to do this, being taken into a handsome room with a good deal of gilding on its walls and a great many chairs and little tables, where Mevrouw van Duyl was sitting by the fire.
It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose -- to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it -- to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.
Sunlight streamed into the vaulted interior, shining across the marmoreal pillars of the concourse and gilding the tapestries suspended between them.
Pummice, with his myrmidons, in aprons and paper caps, retouching the gilding.
Quite unalarmed, he smiled, hoisting his shoe in triumph to display the blot of foil gilding the sole.
Field blacksmith, had gone into partnership with a Domani cutler and a whitesmith from Almoth Plain, and Master Aydaer had hired three men and two women who knew furniture making and carving, and gilding as well, though there certainly was no gold lying about for that.
The rafters, forty feet above her head, had been freshly painted, their carved flowers touched up with crimson and cobalt and their edges freshly gilt, and the gilding around the house shrine of the Holy Widow Wortle had been renewed as well.
Erseiyr glided in from the west, silent as a stormbird, the sun gilding his dark red carapace.
Feldrin was lying lifeless on the floor, his arms two scorched stumps and his face burned away, and Tholone was on his back, dawing feebly at gilding from the smoldering banner that had melted onto his face.
Flakes the size of bonbons fell along the shingled roofs and rough-hewn sills, gilding the world with a dusting of finest sugar.