gilt

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It is hardly necessary for me to detail the steps by which I gradually acquired what is known as a gilt-edged practice; but it was not by virtue of my legal abilities, though they are as good as the average.

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  1. verb A past tense and a past participle of gild1.
  2. adjective Covered with gold or gilt.
  3. adjective Resembling gold, as in color or luster.
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  • Charges against Meinl are also related to promotional material which touted MEL as a gilt-edged investment. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • A gilt is a female hog that has not yet been bred or given birth to piglets and a barrow is a castrated male, Langemeier said. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • The lettering was gilt, the background a skyey blue. —  Maida's Little Shop
  • It was of gilt, and it reached from floor to ceiling between the two front windows. —  His Second Wife
  • I recalled the console tables of old gilt, the brocaded couch, and the gilded chairs which no one dared to sit upon; and I confess that I preferred this habitable cottage-room. —  The Quest of the Simple Life
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  1. Middle English, young sow, from Old Norse gyltr.

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  1. Pp. of gild, v.
  2. Var. of geld, gelt.
  3. from Middle English gilte, from Anglo-Saxon gilte, a young sow, = Old High German gelza, galza, Middle High German gelze, a spayed sow; cf. galt, geld.
  4. Origin obscure.
 

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