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gilded, ppl. a.|ˈgɪldɪd|
Also 1 ᵹegyld, 4 gyld, 4–5 gild.
[f. gild v. + -ed1; the early forms show the syncopation usual in the pa. pples. of verbs of this type. See also gilt ppl. a.]
1. Overlaid wholly or in parts with a thin coating of gold. Gilded Chamber: the House of Lords. gilded spurs: one of the emblems of knighthood.
In mod. use gilded has more dignified associations than gilt, and hence is the form employed in fig. and poet. uses.
αa1000Ags. Ps. (Spelm.) xliv. 11 [xlv. 9] On ᵹyrlan ᵹegyldum [Vulg. in vestitu deaurato]. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 154/22 Crisendeta gyldena uel ᵹegylde fatu. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 569 Miche watz þe gyld gere þat glent þer alofte. c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 338 (Fairf. MS.) Throgh the glas the sonne shon..With many glade gilde stremys. c1400Destr. Troy 3989 Gilde hores hade þat gay, godely to se. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 231 Þan emperialle [apparel] þy Cuppeborde with Siluer & gild fulle gay.
βc1566J. Alday tr. Boaystuaw's Theat. World sig. I 5 Their goodly gilded cups and goblets. a1586Sidney Arcadia v. (1598) 462 When the marchant hath set out his guilded baggage. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. iv. (1651) 271 Two or three hundred guilded Gallies on the water. 1668Davenant Man's the Master v. i, Having first swallowed the gilded pill of love, it prepares the stomach for any thing. 1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Abbé Conti 17 May, In one corner is a little Gallery, inclosed with gilded lattices. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 98 To give gilded work a fine colour. 1808Scott Marm. i. vii, Behind him rode two gallant squires..They burned the gilded spurs to claim. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 317 The display of jewels, plumes, and lace, led horses and gilded coaches, which daily surrounded him. 1894J. Burns in Daily News 12 Feb. 6/3 The House of Lords had ceased to be the stronghold of a high type of statesmanship..The ‘Gilded Chamber’ was a misnomer.
2. Tinged with a golden colour.
1588Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. iv. 62 Thou did'st drinke The stale of Horses, and the gilded Puddle Which Beasts would cough at. 1698J. Fryer E. Ind. & Persia 49 Fishes..some gilded like Gold. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 35 Apples are wholesome and laxative..and the more they are gilded, the more wholesomer they are. 1784Cowper Task vi. 922 Like summer birds Pursuing gilded flies. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. v. 39 It remained the only gilded summit in view.
3. fig. in various uses: see gild v.1 3, 5.
1601Cornwallyes Disc. Seneca (1631) Nn, Setting vp..wealth against honesty, guilded honour aboue reall. 1626C. Potter tr. Sarpi's Hist. Quarrels Paul V 404 In those things which he desired, men vsed guilded or disguised words. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Ad §12. 91 Poverty of Spirit; that is..a divorce of our affections from those guilded vanities [etc.]. 1784Cowper Task vi. 39 Allur'd By every gilded folly. 1827Southey Penins. War II. 574 Gilded disasters were called splendid victories. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. iv, His respect..would prove more truly flattering, than the gilded assent of the whole court. 1868Farrar Silence & V. iii. (1875) 63 When the old iron discipline had yielded to an effeminate luxury and a gilded pollution.
4. gilded youth: fashionable young men belonging to wealthy families: a rendering of F. jeunesse dorée. (See gilt.)
1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 9 The old warlike spirit of the Romans was dead among the gilded youth of families in which [etc.]. 1885Mabel Collins Prettiest Woman ix, He was invited to dine with some of the gilded youth of the city at a certain club that same evening. |