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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of begild.

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Examples

  • She came bravely enough to the showy entrance way, with the polished and begilded lobby, set with framed pictures out of the current attraction, leading up to the quiet box-office, but she could get no further.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • As to food, our dining room but reflected the state of mind any and every hotel dining room reflects, from the most begilded and bemirrored down.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • The most promising ingress appeared to be across the blockade of a robust and much-begilded young man, who was occupying the familiar position of an "end-seat hog," and displaying the full glories of the Hochwaldian dress uniform.

    The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • She came bravely enough to the showy entrance way, with the polished and begilded lobby, set with framed pictures out of the current attraction, leading up to the quiet box-office, but she could get no further.

    Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • She gripped a fancy mat which covered an ornate table by her side, and dragged a begilded vase on to the floor without even noticing it.

    The Box with Broken Seals 1906

  • Keltridge in any minor crisis; and, instead, to sit and meditate upon the crisis, with a black-bound, fine-print, much-begilded volume open on her knee.

    The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

  • She came bravely enough to the showy entrance way, with the polished and begilded lobby, set with framed pictures out of the current attraction, leading up to the quiet box-office, but she could get no further.

    Sister Carrie 1900

  • She came bravely enough to the showy entrance way, with the polished and begilded lobby, set with framed pictures out of the current attraction, leading up to the quiet box-office, but she could get no further.

    Sister Carrie 1900

  • A critical taste might have objected that the plush curtains which shaded the windows were too heavy for summer; that the begilded wallpaper "swore" a little at its own dado and frieze, as well as deadened the effect of the pictures which hung against it; and that the drapery of lace and velvet which veiled the fireplace made a fire inconvenient and almost impossible, however cold the weather might be.

    A Little Country Girl Susan Coolidge 1870

  • And bless the fair sprays that displayed such fowers * And mimic suns gold-begilded bore. "

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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