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gilded
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adjective
(= aureate, gold, golden)
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
long aureate (or golden) hair
a gold carpet
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adjective
(= meretricious)
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
meretricious praise
a meretricious argument
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adjective
(= princely)
rich and superior in quality
a princely sum
gilded dining rooms
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adjective
(= gold, golden)
made from or covered with gold
gold coins
the gold dome of the Capitol
the golden calf
gilded icons
triggerfish
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noun
any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin