0 present participle of gild
1 to cover a surface with a thin layer of gold or a substance that looks like gold
Sunlight gilded the children's faces.
Hill denies them death by fixing and gilding their image as they leap.
There have been businesses dealing with golf clubs, musical instruments, ceramics and gilding.
I see in the totalisator something that seeks to give gain without labour, something which is callous selfishness, disguised only by the gilding of charity.
I regard it as almost in the nature of gilding the lily.
I thought that that was gilding the lily a bit.
I cannot find an equivalent for a man doing gilding and patterned work which is so skilled.
There is no evidence that gilding was used on the railings originally.
It would, indeed, be gilding the lily for me to seek to add any further matters of either explanation or commendation.
