gilded
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If constructed, it will be topped with gilded bald eagles and an angelic Lady Liberty; its speckless white-marble columns will be wide enough to obstruct sight lines to the Lincoln Memorial.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026
US actors Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges have all admitted to losing track of their gilded Academy Awards over the years.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
Drawings and computer-generated renderings show a large, winged Lady Liberty flanked by two eagles -- all gilded -- atop a towering white arch.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
In the lavish memorial erected by his grieving widow, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert is golden, but few world leaders are permanently gilded, and certainly not before their deaths.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Some of Mama’s oldest clothes were still in the closet, and one or two of Tata's jackets, but her jewelry was missing, along with my grandmother’s gilded egg that opened like a box.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Vocabulary lists containing gilded
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Grade 11, List 4
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"Sonnet 55" by William Shakespeare
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