Synonyms:
aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden
Meaning: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
Usage examples
The sunsets gilded the dreamy draws and coves with a minting that should charm away heart-burning.
When the lights went up fully, the Phoenix, balancing itself on the gilded back of a chair, swayed in ecstasy.
He could make fish-jelly, and quince fritters, and even wafer-cakes; and he gilded the ears of all his boars' heads.
It fluffed up its splendid feathers, and stood first on one gilded claw and then on the other, and at last it said--
'Well, I should just like to know if it's hot,' thought the lad, and stuck his finger down into the broth, and when he pulled it out again, lo! it was gilded all over.
"Well, I should just like to know if it's hot," thought the lad, and struck his finger down into the broth, and when he pulled it out again, lo! it was gilded all over.
The candles flickered and went out, the tree was left alone with its gilded ornaments, and Mrs. Bird sent the children down stairs at half-past eight, thinking that Carol looked tired.
Without interest at first, Chris stared at the little Negro boy, so gaily dressed in full red trousers, gilded jacket and white turban. The figure's shoes, carved in some Eastern style, had curved up-pointing toes.
I seem to remember gilded chairs and tables (arranged hurriedly by footmen in white gloves and stockings), linen of dazzling whiteness, glittering glass, silver dishes, a great bowl of fruit, and the reddest of roses.
By day, the banner of the three Lions of Normandy, the diverse coloured sails, the gilded vans, the many decorations of this gorgeous ship, had glittered in the sun and sunny water; by night, a light had sparkled like a star at her mast-head.