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Another word for gild

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Verb

  1. To give a deceptively attractive appearance to

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    true

  2. To make superficially more acceptable or appealing

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    like

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Another word for gild

Verb

  1. To give the appearance of gold

  2. To adorn

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Sentence Examples

  • The gild of weavers numbered 2400 members.

  • Dunstable had also a gild merchant and was affiliated to London.

  • That Chesterfield was early a thriving centre is shown by the charter of John Lord Wake, lord of the manor, granting a gild merchant to the town.

  • The Exeter gild also gave assistance when property was destroyed by fire.

  • The gild merchant came into existence in England soon after the Norman Conquest, as a result of the increasing importance of trade, and it may have been transplanted from Normandy.

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