Gilded
['ɡɪldɪd]
Definition
(adj.) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; 'the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility'; 'meretricious praise'; 'a meretricious argument' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Gild
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Examples
- Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And dropping a small, gilded bottle at the witch's feet, the spirit vanished. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The next moment I sat in a cold, glittering salon, with porcelain stove, unlit, and gilded ornaments, and polished floor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We greedily eat and drink poison out of the gilded cup of vice or from the beggar's wallet of avarice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A gilded mirror filled up the space between two windows, curtained amply with blue damask. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was an old solemn churchits pervading gloom not gilded but purpled by light shed through stained glass. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Then in 1838, Spencer applied these principles in making casts, and Jacobi in Russia shortly after electro-gilded a dome of a cathedral in St. Petersburg. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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