0 to cover a surface with a thin layer of gold or a substance that looks like gold
Sunlight gilded the children's faces.
The main piece of evidence for this is a statute of 1436 requiring all gilds to register their ordinances with local authorities.
However, this act seems to have been ineffectual, suggesting something of what the gilds themselves thought of the idea.
Inclusive and open meetings under the 'canopy of heaven' invested themselves with an 'honesty' that was unattainable in 'fashionable halls and gilded rooms'.
The capacity for subjects to conduct their own affairs, at a village or town level, in gilds or in universities, is not really considered.
Proletarians are now pictured filling the gilded rooms where once only monarchs were received.
The foundation of gilds and fraternities was common in the early and mid-fifteenth century.
The same is true of his treatment of the many manifestations of the gild.
In this respect, the article has a wider significance to urban historians for the understanding of the nature of gilds and the position of gilds within the world of work.
