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gilding

[ US /ˈɡɪɫdɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɪldɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold

How To Use gilding In A Sentence

  • The organic materials in grounds, gilding, paint films, and varnishes become embrittled with age and can no longer flex to accommodate movement in the support.
  • While whole milk is the standard prescription for hot chocolate, the idea of gilding the lily with something a little richer is an undeniably attractive one. How to make perfect hot chocolate
  • His skill in applying color and gilding is remarkable, considering that the twenty-year-old had not completed a normal term of apprenticeship.
  • He dutifully screamed, exposing the braces gilding his teeth.
  • These works are particularly beautiful, and are decorated with gilding as well as famille verte and fencai enamel glazes.
  • The chair, with its handsome gilding, is covered in a crimson silk damask that is similar to the original.
  • Gilded Finish Gilding is a process of overlaying a base metal with a very thin layer of gold.
  • Highlighted items are the paintwork gilding to the capitals in the entrance hall and dentil frieze details in the dining room.
  • As the Vincennes factory was originally set up to rival the products of Meissen, the gilding around the front cartouche is still in the Meissen style with its bat wings, trellis, and stiff peaks.
  • The June light, now approaching the middle hours of the day, and radiant with sunshine, fell in long golden shafts across the body of the choir and into the ranks of the brothers and obedientiaries opposite, gilding half a face here and throwing its other half into exaggerated shade, there causing dazzled eyes in a blanched face to blink away the brightness. The Rose Rent
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