gild
Example Sentences
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Its nine brilliantly colored and richly gilded panels, each measuring about 39 by 36 inches, illustrate essential chapters of Christian faith.
The Constitutional Convention was symbolically presided over by the retired Gen. George Washington, who sat throughout in a chair with a gilded half sun at its top.
A centrist with conservative leanings on the economy and foreign policy, he became a social-media celebrity last March when he delivered an impassioned eight-minute speech in the Senate’s gilded chamber.
You can futz with the bread, you can gild the cheese, but if the core is bland or watery or vaguely funereal, the whole enterprise collapses.
From Salon
The markets already are calling the potential Scottish bonds “kilts,” a play on the word used for British bonds, named “gilts” after the gilded borders on old bond certificates.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
