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gilded
adjective
Covered with a thin layer of gold or a gold-colored coating.
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The Page That Printed Backward · paragraph 5Covered with a thin layer of gold or a gold-colored coating.
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A scratch in the gilded molding exposed the plain wood beneath.
Its gilded frame had lost much of its gold along the lower edge.
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