Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gilds; specifically, one who practises gilding as a trade or art.
- noun See
guilder .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
- noun A Dutch coin. See
guilder .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
craftsman who works withgold andsilver to artistically cover an object as in thegold leaf process. - noun uncommon Alternative spelling of
guilder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt
Etymologies
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Examples
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The gilder was a Chinese catechumen, and was very anxious to do it well; but he knew nothing of English letters, so each letter had to be cut in paper, and he traced it on the wooden panel.
Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak Henriette McDougall 1851
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Spend what remaining gilder you have not on the latest stock market good thing but on that new chanter you've always been promising yourself, that true chanter, that chanter which with luck will prove more precious than any Government bail out.
Consolation from The Piping Times John 2009
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Posted January 18, 2007 1: 35 PM jimbo writes: reference, please: george gilder: the end of scarcity, i believe.
Is Economics All About Scarcity?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Spend what remaining gilder you have not on the latest stock market good thing but on that new chanter you've always been promising yourself, that true chanter, that chanter which with luck will prove more precious than any Government bail out.
GOP Confronts Its Future Viability John 2009
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It sounds a small comfort to realise that when they spew their apparently insane educational, social ( "Be your own police officer/Latin master/firescreen gilder!") or fiscal policies, that they do make sense within a certain rarefied stratum – but comfort it is.
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For his part, Roald could not bear the fact that Liccy was often away filming: he encouraged her to give up this “ruthless, horrible, druggy world” and train as a gilder, so that she could see him more often.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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On October 8, 1865, in the Great Synagogue in London, she married Isaac Magnin, born in Assen, Holland, in 1842, a carver and gilder.
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Catharine, this morning I was practising your death; but methinks I now rejoice that you may survive to tell how the poor mediciner, the pill gilder, the mortar pounder, the poison vender, met his fate, in company with the gallant Knight of
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Hang him; a gilder that hath his brains perished with quicksilver is not more cold in the liver.
The White Devil 2007
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Hang him; a gilder that hath his brains perished with quicksilver is not more cold in the liver.
The White Devil 2007
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