gilded
Example Sentences
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When the front porch came into view, we saw an Edison Victrola with a flared horn lacquered and gilded.
From Literature
Kate sat near the stage in a chipped, gilded plaster box that once enshrined New York society’s elite.
From Literature
But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.
We crossed the grounds, entered the castle doors, now gilded gold, marched up a grand golden staircase, and down a long corridor to a large golden door with gold handles.
From Literature
As an aide hovers, reminding Mr. Walesa that he must depart soon for his next appointment, I ask about a gilded statuette that sits on a table next to him.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
