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Examples of gilding
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Too much gilding for the lily was the diagnosis-too much manner for the matter.
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It is mahogany with what used to be gold gilding and very decorative hardware.
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There's no gilding in sight, no elaborate moldings, no plastic Trevi Fountain.
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Forty, A. J.Corrosion micromorphology of noble metal alloys and depletion gilding.
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Any further Fed action will be gilding the lily, given what has already been done.
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This is, or was, also in silver-gilt, though much of the gilding has worn off.
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Copper is generally most suitable but cupro nickel or gilding metal are also used.
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Keum-boo is a special Korean technique of silver-gilding, using depletion gilding.
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After all, aren't bikinis simply a tease, a gilding of the lily, so to speak?
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- Gilt: a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
- (gilded) aureate: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
- (gilded) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- (gilded) deluxe: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
- (gilded) gold: made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"
- The term gilding covers a number of decorative techniques for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold. A gilded object is described as "gilt". ...
- The art of applying gold leaf to a surface; Gold leaf; A coating of gold, etc
- (gilded) Having the color or quality of gold; Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold; Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated
- (GILDED) an object with a thin overly of gold leaf added to its surface
