gilt's Usage Examples:

Little change, however, seems to have been made since the time of Ibn Jubair, who describes the floor and walls as overlaid with richly variegated marbles, and the upper half of the walls as plated with silver thickly gilt, while the roof was veiled with coloured silk.

The tomb was opened in 1 774, and on the king's head was found an imitation crown of tin or latten gilt, with trefoils rising from its upper edge.

The head of the crozier, which is of silver-gilt with a smaller crozier of bronze inclosed within it, is now deposited in the National Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Why don't I start carving that while you draw this one?At present the magnificent council chambers for the different legislative bodies of the Venetian republic and the state apartments of the doges are richly decorated with gilt carving and panelling in the style of the later Renaissance.

Painted with pink ribbon tied swags of gilt barley ears and gilt dentil rims.

The Monument (1677), Fish Street Hill, City, erected from the designs of Wren in commemoration of the great fire of 1666, is a Doric column surmounted by a gilt representation of a flaming urn.

5 " If we sum up the principal ensigns of knighthood, ancient and modern, we shall find they have been or are a horse, gold ring, shield and lance, a belt and sword, gilt spurs and a gold chain or collar.

Original pale blue cloth, blocked with figure of Tahitian woman in gilt; publisher's patterned endpapers.

Original green cloth, blocked in black on front board (gilt on spine ), brown endpapers.

The decoration of some of the rooms is gorgeous, the walls being covered in part with mosaics and in part with carved work, while the ceilings are rich in arabesque ornaments, elaborately gilt.

At each angle is a freestanding gilt bronze statuette of an allegorical female figure.

Even if a charged and insulated conductor, such as an open canister or deep cup, is not perfectly closed, it will be found that a proof-plane consisting of a small disk of gilt paper carried at the end of a rod of gum-lac will not bring away any charge if applied to the deep inside portions.

specimens are quite plain, but the larger ones are gilt and generally of a highly ornamental character.

Synonyms:

golden, aureate, gold, chromatic, gilded,

Antonyms:

uncolored, sincere, nonmetallic, poor, achromatic,