What is "gilt"

Usage examples of "gilt".

The enclosure of the bema, with its columns and entablatures, was of silver gilt, and set with gems and pearls.

The front is covered with blue cambric, with a border of red, decorated with gilt stars.

God smiled on me, and with His paternal hand invited me to seat myself in His house, on His red drugget, in His gilt armchair.

The photo Evangeline Fesnacht would reproduce in a gilt duotone on the cover of Death Chronicles!

The Redferns had slept in separate rooms: his plainly furnished, the pieces new but not extravagant, hers a fantasia of ruffles, lace, silk, carving, and gilt.

From here the village looked like someone had dropped a box of toy blocks, white and pink and mostly brown around the edges, ringed in a wide straggle of fences, corrals, sheds, and barns, the stream bright on one side, demon shrines making spots of red or blue in the corners of the fields, and the church a fantasia of color and gilt.

Facing the fligh of stairs, was an enormous ten-foot mirror, framed in tarnished gilt carving, and supported by a marble console table.

At last, they came to a small saloon, hung with red damask, in which the principal article of furniture was a tall mirror of the French regency period, set on a gilt console and framed by a pair of bronze girandoles bearing clusters of lighted candles.

The alms given at this chapel were so numerous, that in the hundred and fifty years, since the picture had been placed there, the clergy had been able to purchase numerous lamps and candlesticks of silver, and vessels of silver gilt, and even of gold.

Lord Hino sat cross-legged there, as though he were part of the clouds of cherry blossoms and peacocks painted on the gilt sliding panels of the wall behind him.

Sculptured figures, all dusty gilt, clung for dear life as the old timepiece reverberated with tiny jangly explosions.

Out they trooped, swirling from every rent and gap -- orbs scarlet and sapphire, ruby orbs, orbs tuliped and irised -- the jocund suns of the birth chamber and side by side with them hosts of the frozen, pale gilt, stiff rayed suns.

Near by lies another naval hero, Niels Juel, whose gilt and copper coffin is surmounted by a tablet which tells of his brave deeds.

He was dressed with all the English peculiarity, namely, in a blue coat, with gilt buttons and high collar, in the fashion of 1811, a white kerseymere waistcoat, and nankeen pantaloons, three inches too short, but which were prevented by straps from slipping up to the knee.

His long, well-muscled legs were shown to advantage in a pair of fitting, drab-colored kerseymere breeches which were fastened below the knee with gilt buttons.