Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Silver covered with gilding; also, gilded articles of silver.
- noun A close imitation of real gilding, made by applying silver-leaf, burnishing the surface, and then coating with a transparent yellow lacquer.
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Examples
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Sitting in the Mikhailovsky's pretty apricot and silver-gilt auditorium among the Russian critics and invited guests, you could feel the tension.
Who's pulling the strings in Russia's ballet revolution? 2012
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Made in the Upper Rhine region around 1210, it consists of a wooden bust that housed numerous relics and a hammered silver-gilt head that covered it like a divine skin, replete with a jeweled brow band.
Art review: Splendor abounds in museum's display of grisly holy relics in Baltimore 2011
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Beneath the light, against your white front door, the smallest moths, like Chinese fans, flatten themselves, silver and silver-gilt over pale yellow, orange, or gray.
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Beneath the light, against your white front door, the smallest moths, like Chinese fans, flatten themselves, silver and silver-gilt over pale yellow, orange, or gray.
John Lundberg: Meryl Streep Headlines a Star-Studded Poetry Gala 2010
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Your hair is silver-gilt and your skin is white velvet.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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She cocked her head, silver-gilt hair brushing her shoulders.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2010
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Beneath the light, against your white front door, the smallest moths, like Chinese fans, flatten themselves, silver and silver-gilt over pale yellow, orange, or gray.
John Lundberg: Meryl Streep Headlines a Star-Studded Poetry Gala 2010
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A bearskin cloak, to be exact, fastened at the neck with a silver-gilt brooch as large as the palm of my hand.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Supplied by Edward F. Caldwell & Co, the State Dining Room's sterling silver sconces and chandelier were gilded for Mrs. Kennedy, to better harmonize with the famous White House collection of silver-gilt serving vessels and flatware
Michael Henry Adams: Might the Obamas Restore Lost White House Glory? 2009
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This had been provided, at great cost, by Maffeo Veggio, a pious Humanist, and two noble Roman ladies also gave three silver-gilt lamps, which were lighted before the sacred relic and kept burning night and day.
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