Synonyms:
aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden
Meaning: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
gilt, gilding
Meaning: a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
Usage examples
R. S." in gilt letters on the panel of the door.
They made the room feel cold, in spite of the heavy red damask curtains and great gilt cornices.
In the spaces between the windows there were mirrors in elaborate white and gilt frames, of old-fashioned carving.
All the boys in the country side were there, armed with wooden swords, and decorated with epaulets made of gilt paper.
The vessel in sight was a large hermaphrodite brig, of a Dutch build, and painted black, with a tawdry gilt figure-head.
He started up; and the remembrance of the morning returned to him--the glassy light, the changing rays, the beaming gilt upon the useless books.
These Biscay hookers, even to the poorest, were gilt and painted. Tattooing is part of the genius of those charming people, savages to some degree.
One of these wagons, by the way, a gorgeous red one, had "Express" painted on it in gilt letters, and was known to the younger children as the "'spress" wagon.
"That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Tho they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted."
Next morning we went to New York, and Henriette, taking my design to a theatrical property-man we knew on Union Square, left an order for its exact reproduction in gilt and paste.