What is "gilt edge"

Usage examples of "gilt edge".

I remember standing upright, Claudia's hand slipping on my arm, and the vision of a host of black-dressed men and women moving through the rooms, their garments seeming to garner light from every gilt edge or lacquered surface, seeming to drain all light away.

Sawyer moved slowly around his library, touching things: the corner of a filigreed silver frame, the gilt edge of a leatherbound volume of Bruce Cat-ton's Civil War history, an agate paperweight, so on.

Starhawk commented, and ran her thumb consideringly along the gilt edge of the expensive paper.

One more thing, waiting to hear from somebody named Slotko he's a partner in a big time Washington law firm most prestigious in the country, triple A gilt edge you don't get near him without the right credentials I've got him working on your old man's VCR stock option, make sure if he calls that you, wait.