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
It was late when we arrived at Cocoyotla, but we did not go to rest without visiting the beautiful chapel, which we had omitted to do on our last visit; it is very rich in gilding and ornaments, very large and in good taste. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
But the original paint and gilding are deteriorating and a replacement roof over the chapel has sagged and is resting on the mediaeval ceiling.
We have also experimented with gilding with silver leaf, and plating in copper and nickel baths, then oxidizing the finish to achieve a rich patina.
Gilding the lily of what is basically a romantic comedy, the director falls a little short of his best mark.
Water gilding allows the object to be burnished to achieve a polished, shining surface.
The dome restoration was made possible by two private gifts that funded all of the gold leaf used in the gilding as well as other parts of the restoration.
Gold foil is used for decorative gilding coatings in, for example books, church furniture, steeples and statues.
The project, from the cutting of a thick strip of solid silver bullion to the final gilding, took almost five months to complete.
One way of gilding gingerbread was to paint it with egg white when hot and dab on the gold.
A fire burning low in the grate was the sole light of the apartment; its beams flashed mockingly on the somewhat showy Versaillese furniture and gilding here, in style as unlike that of the structural parts of the building as it was possible to be, and probably introduced by The Woodlanders
Gilding may also be ornamented by various types of relief decoration.
The main arguments for a date sometime after the mid-nineteenth century are those relating to electro-gilding, blow torch brazing and the metallurgical analyses.
Gold leaf used in gilding is made in much the same way.
The Rococo style, characterized by lavish ornamentation, organic forms and the use of gilding, grew to its height in 18th century France.
And then as regarded fashion, it might perhaps not be beyond the power of a Mrs. Proudie to regild the word with a newly burnished gilding. Framley Parsonage
Now, naked, simmering with annoyance, the deepening light gilding him, he was no less imposing.
He set his goblet on the table between them, fingers lingering to absently trace the gilding.
The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay.
Needless to say, the ormolu retains its original gilding, and the Blue John body is richly hued and striated.
It was like a step-by-step gilding demonstration straight from a Renaissance painting.
By the middle of the eighteenth century, glass-makers in Britain were decorating glass by various techniques including engraving, cutting, gilding, and enameling.
Revitalizing the craft Painter says a renaissance in carving, finishing and gilding has occured in the past 10 or 15 years.
Some people add a little brandy to the recipe but I feel this is gilding the lily.
Worldbuilding: The ambiguity in the term "worldbuilding" resides in the fact that it was coined for the craft of creating ordinate realities in the manner of Tolkien's highly methodical "subcreation," largely a matter of blocking, bolstering, gilding and bumphing, but has come to be applied not just to worldscapes generated by worldblazing but to any sufficiently foreign and/or complex fictive milieu, even to milieus that are largely mimetic. Archive 2009-12-01
The skills he acquired from Arthur would later become apparent, particularly in his gilding on glass.
Tawny filemot gilding the valleys, each seam and rut a scroll or arabesque, and all the year pouring out her heart's blood to flush the maples, the great impurpled granites warm with the sunshine they have drunk all summer! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
Although mass produced, these clocks were finely if not heavily gilded, and some wear should be expected if the gilding is claimed as original.
White marble, walls of terra-cotta, roofs of glazed golden tiles, and woodwork finished with vermillion paint, lacquer and gilding unite to create an effect of outstanding beauty.
Another will yearn for the poetic glamour, gilding realistic truth, of Giorgione; for the intensely pathetic interpretation of Lorenzo Lotto, with its unique combination of the strongest subjective and objective elements, the one serving to poetise and accentuate the other. The Earlier Work of Titian
Rumour has it that when they were regilding, they had to inform the Treasury due to the amount of gold being used.
There were a number of unusual features - the proportion of gilding to porphyry, the use of scagliola, the use of liners, the lack of comparable design: these points largely arise from Petitot's design.
Warm California sunlight poured in through the photosensitized windows, gilding everything inside from furniture to flowers. Jed the Dead
Elegant enclosure made by valuable log, together with gilding vertical shaft and beautiful curlicue shows magnificence.
In northern European paintings matt, unburnished gilding is also found and contracts may specify which areas are to be burnished and which are to be matt.
The library maintains and restores its collection in its bindery, where skills like paper making, hand-marbling, gilding and binding are practised.
Italian and German armorers produced both subtly decorated but functional-seeming garnitures and extravagant show pieces, contrasting high and low relief, delicate incising, gilding, and inlaying, with smoothly modulated steel, originally blackened for drama, as we learn from the portraits. Armor as Wearable Sculpture
Part one ends with an asymmetrical chapter on lacquer; japanning, and varnish, gilding, and silvering.
You can't scrape off the gilding and pretend that what's left is unchanged in value.
All the previous repairs to the gilding were removed, and following consolidation of the worm-eaten panel, the losses were filled with gesso and regilded using traditional materials.
Later dessert flatware, whether matching the dinner service or not, often had extra embellishment in the form of gilding and/or engraving.
All the previous repairs to the gilding were removed, and following consolidation of the worm-eaten panel, the losses were filled with gesso and regilded using traditional materials.
Gold leaf used in gilding is made in much the same way.
Only the gilding of the room in some degree brought itself into keeping with the splendours outside, stray darts of light seizing upon it and lengthening themselves out along fillet, quirk, arris, and moulding, till wasted away. The Hand of Ethelberta
There is more to this restoration than plugging cracks and regilding: the quality of the decoration is a revelation, now that it can be seen properly for the first time.
Digital photographs of the chair were carefully enhanced to clean and brighten the red show cover, enliven the gilding, and replace lost areas of trim.
The back of the slab had been worn very hollow, but the gilding and colour on the front were found to be in an excellent state of preservation.
Kent was a TV heartthrob with his Superman good looks gilding his newshawk reputation.
The gold background is original, and although worm damage has resulted in repairs around the left and right edges and in the upper right-hand corner, the gilding is generally well preserved.
A very beautiful instance of applied science to art is electrometallurgy, in which metals are deposited by means of the galvanic battery in any required form or shape, and this process of gilding and plating is executed with marvellous rapidity. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
Like Whistler, he was much concerned with the shade of gold leaf and the play of matte and bright gilding.
Instead of gilding and elaborate flourishes, such beds have more modest detailing and are painted in subtle pale greys and beiges.
As he found much was still in the developmental stage here, it gave him the welcome opportunity to try out some of his copied recipes for gilding and color-making.
WASHINGTON was old, dignified and wealthy; and these factitious advantages, never to be despised in gilding a contemporary renown, possessed, unquestionably, a greater influence upon the men of his times, than they would exert among us to-day. National Disappointment. A Discourse Occasioned by the Assassination of President Lincoln.
The three or four cases which successively covered the cartonage were ornamented in like manner with painting and gilding, and the whole was enclosed in a sarcophagus of wood or stone, profusely charged with painting or sculpture. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
The gilding is good with just a little wear, mainly to the top rim of the sucrier where the lid sits.
White marble, walls of terra-cotta, roofs of glazed golden tiles, and woodwork finished with vermillion paint, lacquer and gilding unite to create an effect of outstanding beauty.
Matter of fact, the only thing that keeps the shop busy is the business of repairing the eagles, which are always coming in for regilding and refurbishing.
The two interlocutors in this dialogue were sitting in a low oak-panelled room in Plymouth town, handsomely enough furnished, adorned with carving and gilding and coats of arms, and noteworthy for many strange knickknacks, Spanish gold and silver vessels on the sideboard; strange birds and skins, and charts and rough drawings of coast which hung about the room; while over the fireplace, above the portrait of old Captain Will Hawkins, pet of Westward Ho!
The villa of cardinal Alexander Albani is light, gay, and airy; yet the rooms are too small, and too much decorated with carving and gilding, which is a kind of gingerbread work. Travels through France and Italy
Once upon a time it had been gilded, but now the gilding seemed to be tarnishing and flaking - evidently no one came in here to touch up these days.
In tempera painting the most spectacular technique to combine gilding and paint is that of sgraffito, most often used to depict cloth of gold.
To achieve the reflective gleam of solid gold which is the aim of water gilding it needs to be burnished by rubbing the surface with a burnisher, usually a hard polished stone such as haematite or agate mounted in a wooden handle.
Should I add a scarf to this jacket or would it be gilding the lily?
The tower will be scaffolded throughout and the clock faces will be removed for refurbishment, re-glazing and re-gilding at the end of August.
The amber mosaic panels between the long mirrors and gilding have been painstakingly reproduced and constructed by Russian craftsmen.
_book-binding_, gilding, lettering, and what they called pasting-printing, by the use of the rolling press. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
More than 40 new curators have been taken on, with experts in everything from Chinese painting to metalwork, taxidermy, armoury and gilding.
To separate them, take out the cork and let the dark liquid flow out: when it has disappeared, stop the tube immediately with the cork, and what remains in the tube is fit for use, and may be called gilding liquid. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
The gold background is original, and although worm damage has resulted in repairs around the left and right edges and in the upper right-hand corner, the gilding is generally well preserved.
Now, if I must conform my smiles to lightning, then my smiles must gild a storm too: to _gild_ with _smiles_, is a new invention of gilding. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
This final act of generosity is what she calls gilding the lily. Grilled Taleggio-Walnut Sandwich With Roasted Fall Grapes
Besides, that which is lost in gilding, which is fooled away upon our Lady of Loretto, and other places, and which has been swallowed up by the avaricious sea must be counted. A Philosophical Dictionary
In accordance with Victorian taste, the gilding was deliberately removed in 1842.
During World War I and II, new alternatives for the manufacture of frames were created, since trained craftsmen were called to duty and the shortage of gold meant gilding was harder to come by.
Designs used blown glass techniques with little cutting and engraving but no painting or gilding.
The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay.
It was so completely enveloped in Dutch gilding that I did not at first recognize an old acquaintance, but wondered what those golden crowns and images could be. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
Its purpose is to provide a smooth, almost slippery, surface for later burnishing, but the red and yellow boles also enrich the colour of the gilding.
Once upon a time it had been gilded, but now the gilding seemed to be tarnishing and flaking - evidently no one came in here to touch up these days.
And this dining room is the most elegantly pretty in London, a marvellous fondant of gilding, marble and airhead fresco.
The gilding and frills of the eighteenth century were stripped away in favor of the natural beauty of materials and shapes.
Moyer learned that on the sections of these pieces with recessed carved leaf decoration, the method used was oil gilding, which was usually reserved for gilding boiserie.
Misery gave way to elation, however, when spears of sunlight rent the clouds, gilding the watery flatlands of Lewis.
Tawny filemot gilding the valleys, each seam and rut a scroll or arabesque, and all the year pouring out her heart's blood to flush the maples, the great impurpled granites warm with the sunshine they have drunk all summer! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
Over this a surface of gesso, made up of clay, chalk, and size, would be applied in successive layers, and smoothed before paint and gilding was applied.
_Cutting boards_, wedge-shaped boards somewhat like backing boards, but with the top edge square; used in cutting the edge of a book and in edge-gilding. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
General Savage, an elderly gourmet, a ventripotent Apicins, an epicurian Heliogabalus, very cynical, and awfully churlish, thought that the pill, despite of its gilding, was too bitter to swallow
Some people add a little brandy to the recipe but I feel this is gilding the lily.
The phrase gilding the lily comes to mind but it's more like drenching- in pure picante goodness! Saturday Morning Egg Muffin Melts (Kalyn Gets Creative With Leftovers)
He also employed Galle to regild the mounts with matt gilding.
Should I add a scarf to this jacket or would it be gilding the lily?
The chair, with its handsome gilding, is covered in a crimson silk damask that is similar to the original.
At the same time, a modern oil-gilt finish was removed, revealing that nothing survived of the chair's original gilding.
As late as 1742 gilding shillings to pass as guineas was made treason.
Instead of using traditional Japanese mineral pigments such as azurite, lapis, malachite and cinnabar mixed with gelatin, he employed his familiar oil paints and European gilding methods.
Crispinus goes on telling Horace that none are safe from such calumnies; but that, if his 'dastard wit' will 'strike at men in corners,' if he will 'in riddles folde the vices' of his best friends, then he must expect also that they will 'take off all gilding from their pilles,' and offer him 'the bitter coare' (core). Shakspere and Montaigne
They do the drama really well without gilding the lily. The Sun
I also tend to prefer an unsugared cookie, since sugaring peanut butter cookies seems like gilding the lily, to me. Peanut butter cookies | smitten kitchen
He also employed Galle to regild the mounts with matt gilding.
The public rooms are short on marble and gilding, and long on rustic wood panelling.
When dry and hard the ground was scraped and abraded to a smooth flat surface, especially important if there were to be areas of gilding.
The walls are beautifully stuccoed and decorated with Morisco fancifulness; the lofty ceiling was originally of the same favorite material, with the usual frostwork and pensile ornaments or stalactites; which, with the embellishments of vivid coloring and gilding, must have been gorgeous in the extreme. The Alhambra
He drew Ms Thomson's attention to the quality of the gilding on the lions and serpents which he described as marvellous.
In the hour of dawn, as the first rosy fingers of light spread out upon the sea, shining on whitecaps and gilding the wings of gulls as they sailed over the heights where the water met the cliffs of northmost Karthay, a dwarf mage roused from his tortured sleep in the castle all folk around knew as the Citadel of Night. Dalamar the Dark
His eyes turned rather eagerly towards the end of the room where the girl was standing alone, straight and slim, the light from an electrolier gilding the thick bright curls framing her beautiful, haughty little face. The Sheik
It must be of the right kind, sex, age, colour; it must go willingly to the slaughter, adorned with fillets and ribbons (_infulae_, _vittae_), in order to mark it off from other animals as holy; in the case of oxen, we hear also of the gilding of the horns, but this must have been costly and unusual. [ The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
They are electro-gilt -- that is, the gilding is fixed on them by means of a bath through which an electric current passes. Chatterbox, 1905.
And then as regarded fashion, it might perhaps not be beyond the power of a Mrs Proudie to begild the word with a newly burnished gilding. Framley Parsonage
With this in mind she was determined to completely remove all dirt and corrosion from the domes before the gilding began and pioneered a method to do so.
Soon the feathery lace work of bamboos beneath which they sat were whispering to the night-wind that had roused at the dropping of the huge ball of fire in the west, and the soft radiance of a gentle moon was gilding with silver the gaunt black arms of a babool. Caste

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