aureate

Example Sentences

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Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the documents claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to claim her new house as his own.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021

But the poet may have been right after all; whatever small measure of aureate glimmer and substance here is, ultimately, fleeting.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2019

A dusted copper heaven streaked with gold and siphoned from Klimt’s aureate imagination.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2017

This came as something of a surprise to those whose sole experience of festivals has been knee-deep in mud, swaying arhythmically while those around either pogo or chuck pints of aureate liquid about the place.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012

Caiques carrying merchants to their homes somewhere along the upper shores were burnished with the aureate hue.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow