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Gilding   /gˈɪldɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Gilding  n.  
1.
The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.
2.
Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface.
3.
Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine.
Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.



verb
Gild  v. t.  (past & past part. gilded or gilt; pres. part. gilding)  
1.
To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." "No more the rising sun shall gild the morn."
2.
To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. "Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day."
3.
To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
4.
To make red with drinking. (Obs.) "This grand liquior that hath gilded them."






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"Gilding" Quotes from Famous Books



... know me?" and a soul from out the gloom Welcomed the rippling brooklet flowing past the tomb, Gilding the steeples, near and far, with a dusk and dimsome spleen, Tipping with crest of golden fire Each mighty CAESAR'S funeral pyre In ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., Issue 31, October 29, 1870 • Various

... itself, in spite of the gilding of the setting sun. Stone lay everywhere: not the limestone of his own hills and cliffs, but grim, black-looking millstone-grit, which here and there formed craggy, forbidding outlines; and this did not increase his satisfaction ...
— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn

... pale Phoebe hunting in a Grove, First saw the Boy Endymion, from whose Eyes She took eternal fire that never dyes; How she convey'd him softly in a sleep, His temples bound with poppy to the steep Head of old Latmus, where she stoops each night, Gilding the Mountain with her Brothers light, To kiss ...
— The Faithful Shepherdess - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Vol. 2 of 10). • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

... rear had left the square. It was composed of people of all classes, who sang hymns as with one mighty voice. It bore banners of violet, green, rose, blue and other colors, magnificently decorated with gilding, paintings and embroidery. These banners numbered nearly three hundred, and came from various parts of the country. Even far-off Algeria was represented. The banner of Alsace and Lorraine was in mourning, and was borne by girls in white. As it passed ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various

... stand, being of such enormous size that they could not be removed. These stand in four separate houses, and are gilded all over except their heads, which resemble black-a-moors. The expences of these people in gilding their images are quite enormous. The king has only one wife, but above 300 concubines, by whom he is said to have 80 or 90 children. He sits in judgment every day, on which occasion the applicants use no speech, but give up their supplications ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr


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