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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a gilt edge.
  • adjective Slang, U. S. Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.

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Examples

  • Following on from Brown bottom and the off-balance sheet PFI schemes, we now may have Gordon Brown swapping nice clean gilt-edge government bonds for a large amount of the banks 'dodgy mortgages.

    Has Gordon Brown found another way to screw up the economy? Not a sheep 2008

  • Neither the history nor a gilt-edge curlycue certificate is going to save me from an ass-whippin'.

    Keeping it Mysterious Steve Perry 2010

  • Neither the history nor a gilt-edge curlycue certificate is going to save me from an ass-whippin'.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Steve Perry 2010

  • Following on from Brown bottom and the off-balance sheet PFI schemes, we now may have Gordon Brown swapping nice clean gilt-edge government bonds for a large amount of the banks 'dodgy mortgages.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • If I was the real high-flyer everyone said I was, the wonder boy, shouldn't I at least be getting a little more fun out of it - instead of stashing all my cash away in gilt-edge and blue-chip and just a little under-the-counter gold?

    Chase the Morning Rohan, Michael Scott 1990

  • He was going to college in the West, where he could work his way, and in his trunk was a high-school diploma, and in his pocket a "gilt-edge recommendation" from Dr. Layton.

    Stories Worth Rereading Various

  • Leadeh adorns hisself wid de gilt-edge robes ob de 'propriate responsibility an' collects de cash.

    Lady Luck Hugh Wiley

  • Then, on feeling that he had the right kind of goods for a gilt-edge market he would make a shipment of a box of

    Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge Silas K. Boone

  • SHAKSPEARE, complete in one volume, full cloth, extra gilt, and gilt-edge; or any one of the standard BRITISH POETS, in the same style.

    The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various

  • Shakspeare, complete in one volume, full cloth, extra gilt, and gilt-edge; or any one of the standard British Poets, in the same style.

    The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various

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