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Definition of Gilded

1. Adjective. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold. "A gold carpet"

2. Adjective. Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing. "A meretricious argument"

3. Adjective. Rich and superior in quality. "Gilded dining rooms"

4. Adjective. Made from or covered with gold. "Gilded icons"

Definition of Gilded

1. Verb. (past of gild) ¹

2. Adjective. Having the color or quality of gold. ¹

3. Adjective. Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold. ¹

4. Adjective. Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gilded

1. gild [v] - See also: gild

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gilded

gigster gigsters gigue gigues gila monster gilalite gilas gilbert gilbert's disease gilbertite

gilberts gilcup gilcups gild gild the lily gilded (current term) gilded cage gilded cages gilded flicker gilded the lily

gilden gilder gilders gildhall gildhalls gilding gilding metal gilding the lily gildings gilds

Literary usage of Gilded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1918)
"Raymond's most popular performance was that of Colonel Sellers, in "The gilded Age"; his most artistic and important embodiment that of Ichabod Crane, ..."

2. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"The furniture in the reign of the grand monarque was principally gilded : gold glittered everywhere. In 1667, the Manufacture royalle des Meubles de la ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... altar I will offer up A heifer, one year old, and broad of front, Unbroken, ne'er submitted to the yoke : This will I offer, and with gilded horns. ..."

4. The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical by William Winter (1913)
"Raymond's most popular performance was that of Colonel Sellers, in "The gilded Age"; his most artistic and important embodiment that of Ichabod Crane, ..."

5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"WEBSTER, White Devil, ma I discern poison under your gilded PILLS. for TO PILL, Ibid. ... gilded THE PILL I was to swallow with a present of fifty ducats. ..."

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