Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gild: as, “bride-laces begilt,” B. Jonson, King's Entertainment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To gild.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
gild ; to cover withgold .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
Etymologies
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be- + gild
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Examples
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And then as regarded fashion, it might perhaps not be beyond the power of a Mrs Proudie to begild the word with a newly burnished gilding.
Framley Parsonage 2004
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I dreamed, I know not what absurdities; suddenly a solemn swelling chorus of countless voices gently interrupted my slumbers -- the room was filled with light, and the sun on high was beginning to begild an irregular parallelogram in the wainscot, when I started up, and hastily drew on some clothes.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842
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