About The Word Gilt

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Gilt

Gilt Meaning & Definition
Gilt Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gilt?

[n] a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
[adj] having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Gilt: aureate | chromatic | gilded | gilding | gold | golden

Related Terms | Find terms related to Gilt: acting | affectation | appearance | attitudinizing | aureate | auric | barrow | beige | bluff | bluffing | blunt | boar | boodle | brass | brassy | bravery | brazen | bread | bronze | bronzy | bucks | buff | buff-yellow | cabbage | canary | canary-yellow | cheating | chiffon | chips | citron | citron-yellow | clinquant | color | coloring | copper | coppery | cream | creamy | cupreous | cuprous | deception | delusion | dinero | disguise | dissemblance | dissembling | dissimulation | dough | ecru | facade | face | fakery | faking | fallow | false air | false front | false show | falsity | feigning | feint | ferrous | ferruginous | festoons | finery | flaxen | folderol | foofaraw | four-flushing | fraud | frilliness | frilling | frills | frills and furbelows | frippery | front | froufrou | fuss | gaiety | gaudery | gelt | gilded | gilding | gingerbread | gloss | gold | gold-colored | golden | gold-filled | gold-plated | grease | green | green stuff | hog | humbug | humbuggery | imposture | iron | ironlike | jack | kale | lead | leaden | lemon | lemon-yellow | luteolous | lutescent | masquerade | mazuma | mercurial | mercurous | meretriciousness | moolah | mopus | nickel | nickelic | nickeline | ocherish | ocherous | ochery | ochreous | ochroid | ochrous | ochry | oil of palms | ointment | oof | ooftish | or | ostentation | outward show | paste | pewter | pewtery | pig | piggy | piglet | pigling | pinchbeck | playacting | porker | pose | posing | posture | pretense | pretension | pretext | primrose | primrose-colored | primrose-yellow | quicksilver | razorback | representation | rhino | rocks | saffron | saffron-colored | saffron-yellow | sallow | sand-colored | sandy | seeming | semblance | sham | shekels | shoat | show | silver | silver-plated | silvery | simoleons | simulacrum | simulation | sow | speciousness | spondulics | steel | steely | straw | straw-colored | suckling pig | sugar | superfluity | swine | the needful | tin | tinny | tinsel | trappings | trickery | trumpery | tusker | varnish | wampum | wild boar | window dressing | xanthic | xanthous | yellow | yellowish

See Also | coat | coating

Gilt In Webster's Dictionary

\Gilt\, n. [See {Geld}, v. t.] (Zo["o]l.) A female pig, when young.
\Gilt\, imp. & p. p. of {Gild}.
\Gilt\, p. p. & a. Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. ``Gilt hair'' --Chaucer.
\Gilt\, n. 1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. --Shak. 2. Money. [Obs.] ``The gilt of France.'' --Shak.

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