Crossword clues for gilded
gilded
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.
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To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. ``Gilded chariots.''
--Pope.No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.
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To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day.
--Trumbull. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
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To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
This grand liquior that hath gilded them.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s (late Old English had gegylde); in modern use the more dignified past participle of gild (q.v.). Shakespeare's lilies were never gilded; the quote ("King John," iv.2) is, "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily."
Wiktionary
1 Having the color or quality of gold. 2 Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold. 3 Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated. v
(en-past of: gild)
WordNet
adj. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: aureate, gilt, gold, golden]
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: meretricious, specious]
rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous]
made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons" [syn: gold, golden]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "gilded".
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.
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.
The furnishings, too, were all gilded and begemmed, bed and chairs and benches, wardrobes and chests and washstand.
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.
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.
It gilded the helmet and byrnie of Olaf Button-nose, where he leaned on his sword, gazing out to sea.
The big, thick-bodied monarch sat in another cathedra chair, expressionless, a sheet of parchment atop a nearby table, the half-rolled sheet all bedecked with ribbons and seals along its lower edge, a gilded message tube of boiled leather near it.
An avenue of cryptomeria and two handsome and somewhat gilded Buddhist temples denoted the approach to a place of some importance, and such Takata is, as being a large town with a considerable trade in silk, rope, and minjin, and the residence of one of the higher officials of the ken or prefecture.
Instead of an ordinary outer tunic, he wore a cutwork garment of gilded leather over it.
His gilded cymar flowed like water on the breeze, alternately caressing and concealing his limbs.
Rugged, pristine wilderness stretched as far as Daile could see, forested ridges gilded by the morning light.