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: covered or tinged with gold or a golden color
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The reception room, just off the entryway, features colorful wall and ceiling decorations and a gilded overmantel mirror and matching cornices.—
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: having a background of wealth and luxury : prosperous, luxurious
Emily Post was raised among New York's gilded elite.—Susan Berfield
Susan Berfield… despite the upper-crust background and the gilded résumé, Bonham Carter is a pretty modern chick off stage.—Elizabeth Gleick
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Adorned with gilded buttons, her look nodded to fashions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, key influences of the goth subculture.
—Hannah Malach, WWD, 4 Mar. 2025
The temple is adorned with intricate floral motifs, marble inlays, and frescoes, but the gilded dome remains the focal point.
—Shalbha Sarda, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
Now part of the Musei Reali, the palace’s royal apartments—replete with crystal chandeliers, ceiling frescoes, gilded moldings, and antiques—have been opened up to the public.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
These hotels are, at their worst, sites of literal death, and at best, gilded cages for the unimaginative.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 Feb. 2025
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Hannah Malach, WWD, 4 Mar. 2025
The temple is adorned with intricate floral motifs, marble inlays, and frescoes, but the gilded dome remains the focal point.
—Shalbha Sarda, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
Now part of the Musei Reali, the palace’s royal apartments—replete with crystal chandeliers, ceiling frescoes, gilded moldings, and antiques—have been opened up to the public.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
These hotels are, at their worst, sites of literal death, and at best, gilded cages for the unimaginative.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gilded
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“Gilded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gilded. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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