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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  1. adjective Of a golden color; gilded.
  2. adjective Inflated and pompous in style.

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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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