Who would gild a lily?
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Gild
/ɡɪld/
Synonyms for "gild" (136 found)
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4 entriesgold leafinggold platingornamental proserhetorical embellishment
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5 entriesgilded framegilding processgilding techniquesgold leafinggold plating
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One can never gild shit so it does not smell.
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Nine pounds of gold was needed to gild the victory medals.
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Perceiving that the general effect was gloomy,—so that the airy castle looked like a feudal fortress, or a monastery of the Middle Ages, or a state prison of our own times, rather than the home of pleasure and repose which he intended it to be,—the owner, regardless of expense, resolved to gild the exterior from top to bottom.
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