Gilded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gilded} or {Gilt}
     (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gilding}.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
     [root]234. See {Gold}.]
     1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a
        golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded
        chariots." --Pope.


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              No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
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     2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
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              Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
              Gild the calm evening of your day.    --Trumbull.
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     3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
        embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
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     4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
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              This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gilded
       adj 1: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long
              aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: {aureate},
               {gilt}, {gold}, {golden}]
       2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and
          perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious
          praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: {meretricious}, {specious}]
       3: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded
          dining rooms" [syn: {deluxe}, {luxurious}, {opulent}, {princely},
           {sumptuous}]
       4: made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome
          of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons" [syn: {gold},
           {golden}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "gilded":
     apparent, aureate, auric, beige, buff, buff-yellow, canary,
     canary-yellow, citron, citron-yellow, colorable, colored, cream,
     creamy, ecru, fallow, flaxen, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden,
     lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, meretricious, ocherish,
     ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or,
     ostensible, plausible, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow,
     saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored,
     sandy, seeming, specious, straw, straw-colored, tinsel, xanthic,
     xanthous, yellow, yellowish