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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of regild.

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Examples

  • Now I do one or two a year, says Phelan, who recently regilded a cross on a cathedral in San Francisco.

    Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011

  • Now I do one or two a year, says Phelan, who recently regilded a cross on a cathedral in San Francisco.

    Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011

  • Now I do one or two a year, says Phelan, who recently regilded a cross on a cathedral in San Francisco.

    Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011

  • He's had it regilded, but it still has a small chip on its right shoulder.

    The Other Shylock Ellen Gamerman 2011

  • For instance, when work on this restoration project first began in 2005, elaborate mirrors were cleaned and regilded but not resilvered.

    A Well-Maintained 100-Year-Old 2010

  • Second, the panels to be placed back in the original frame were restored, not regilded.

    The Centre of the Universe 2009

  • The city of Paris was having the dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • A second wave of the invasion brought painters, paperhangers and plumbers, and in a moment of enthusiasm Bella had the cornice and the capitals of the pillars in the hall regilded; windows were reglazed, banisters fitted into gaping sockets, and the stair carpet shifted so that the worn strips were less noticeable.

    The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

  • Behind this arose the shingled tower of Hohen-Cremmen, whose weather vane glistened in the sunshine, having only recently been regilded.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

  • The taste of spring was in the air: one of the dentists was having his sign regilded, a huge four-pronged grinder as big as McTeague's in Frank Norris's story.

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

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