gild

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The protection of the gild was accorded also to townsmen on their travels.

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  1. transitive verb To cover with or as if with a thin layer of gold.
  2. transitive verb To give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to.
  3. transitive verb Archaic To smear with blood.

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golden ·  ornate ·  wooden ·  antique ·  yellow ·  shiny ·  bronze ·  gorgeous

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gild:   gilded ·  gilt ·  gilding
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  1. Middle English gilden, from Old English gyldan; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English gilden, rarely gulden, from Anglo-Saxon gyldan (late and rare) (= Dutch ver-gulden = German ver-golden = Icelandic gylla = Danish for-gylde = Swedish för-gylla), overlay with gold, with reg. umlaut, from gold (= Icelandic gull, etc.), gold: see gold. Cf. gilt, v.
 

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