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Definition of gilded

Overview of verb gild

The verb gild has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) gild, begild, engild

(decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold)

Overview of adj gilded

The adj gilded has 4 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden

(having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet")

2. gilded, meretricious, specious

(based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument")

3. deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous

(rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms")

4. gold, golden, gilded

(made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons")