Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
decorated \decorated\ adj. having decorations. [Narrower terms: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly; bedaubed; bespectacled, monocled, spectacled; braided; brocaded, embossed, raised; buttony; carbuncled; champleve, cloisonne, enameled; crested, plumed having a decorative plume); crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested; embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; encircled, ringed, wreathed; fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked out; feathery, feathered, plumy; frilled, frilly, ruffled; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid; inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; paneled, wainscoted; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled; tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out] Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
Syn: adorned.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of pages of a book etc English) Having gilded edges. 2 (context of securities English) Issued by the Bank of England. 3 Of the highest quality.
WordNet
adj. of the highest quality or value; "gilt-edged securities"; "gilt-edged credentials"
having gilded edges as the pages of a book
Usage examples of "gilt-edged".
I entered the hotel, I checked my mailbox and found the invitation Angers had referred toa handsomely printed gilt-edged card which I was asked to display to the person appointed when presenting myself at a garden party at Presidential House, et cetera et cetera.
And she and Louey talked about children who were to be rewarded with gilt-edged cards, and old men who had been so delighted with their tobacco, that they had quite forgotten there were some tracts for them as well, as though these were the most engrossing and entertaining topics in the world.
A cluster of ensigns and midshipmen flipped the pages of tall, gilt-edged books, alternately pointing toward the game board and arguing.
The centre-table had two or three gilt-edged books lying carelessly about on it, and some prints and a stereoscope with stereographs to match, chiefly groups of picnics, weddings, etc.
I've put it in gilt-edged stuff - stuff that the master recommended - and when the master cashed in, I cashed in.
He would have traded ten thousand costumed autograph hounds for one gilt-edged monograph on “Dungannon’s Use of Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Fantasy.
The light from the fringed silk lamp shade played over his long surgeons hand as he slid it lengthwise between the gilt-edged pages with the careful slicing motion hed taught them, counseling, A dog-eared book is the sign of a lazy, undisciplined person.
But a big dinner, with a hired chef and two borrowed footmen, with Roman punch, roses from Henderson's, and menus on gilt-edged cards, was a different affair, and not to be lightly undertaken.
He was of that sturdy, conservative group of people who play only sure things, and purchase only gilt-edged securities, and find happiness in the clipping of coupons and the foreclosing of mortgages.
No one had even hinted that there was anything wrong with synopsizing and organizing the data in their diaries—which, to be sure, were not really “diaries” at all, in the sense of little gilt-edged books that you wrote your latest crushes and enmities in.