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gilt

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1. gilt - Noun

2. gilt - Adjective

3. gilt - Verb

Derived from gild

5. gilt - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Money.

of Gild

A female pig, when young.

imp. & p. p. of Gild.

Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.

Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Mary Wollstonecraft

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) Elizabeth Bishop

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. Gustave Flaubert

Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or smoot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it. Thomas Carlyle

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. Tom Hooper

A gilt bridle for an old mule. French Proverb

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