aureate

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Howat progressed rapidly past the smithy, and turned to the right, about the Furnace dam, a placid and irregular reach of water holding the reflection of the trees on a mirror still dulled by a vanishing trace of mist, above which the leaves hung in the motionless air, in the aureate wash of the early sun, as if they had been pressed from gold foil.

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  • The animals he put into the cage showed no ill effects, so he finally tested it on himself. —  The Voyage of the Space Beagle
  • These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistie. —  The Shadow of the Torturer
  • Howat progressed rapidly past the smithy, and turned to the right, about the Furnace dam, a placid and irregular reach of water holding the reflection of the trees on a mirror still dulled by a vanishing trace of mist, above which the leaves hung in the motionless air, in the aureate wash of the early sun, as if they had been pressed from gold foil. —  The Three Black Pennys A Novel
  • Lights of London 'a proverb, we beheld the glittering of three aureate orbs. —  He
  • Furnace dam, a placid and irregular reach of water holding the reflection of the trees on a mirror still dulled by a vanishing trace of mist, above which the leaves hung in the motionless air, in the aureate wash of the early sun, as if they had been pressed from gold foil. —  The Three Black Pennys A Novel
 

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  1. Middle English aureat, from Late Latin aureātus, from aureus, golden, from aurum, gold.

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  1. Early modern English aureat, from Late Latin aureatus, adorned with gold, from Latin aureus, golden, from aurum, gold: see aurum.
 

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/ˈɔrəət/
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