gilded
has definitions from the field of color
|
|
1 |
[ adjective ] (color) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
Examples "long aureate (or golden) hair" "a gold carpet" Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)She leaned unconcerned against the broken porch fence , brushing and drying her wet , gilded hair in the sun . Related terms |
2 |
[ adjective ] based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
Synonyms Examples "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility" "meretricious praise" "a meretricious argument" Related terms |
3 | |
4 | |
* |
|