Gilding Synonyms

gĭldĭng
To make superficially more acceptable or appealing
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sweetening
  2. sugarcoating
  3. sugaring
  4. honeying
  5. candying
To adorn
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. whitewashing
  2. varnishing
  3. veneering
  4. overlaying
  5. sugarcoating
  6. glossing
  7. coloring
To give the appearance of gold
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. overlaying
  2. plating
  3. washing
A coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gilt

Words Related to Gilding

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Gilding Sentence Examples

  • Gilding and enamel decoration are applied to vessels when cold, and fixed by heat.

  • A similar series of works was projected and begun about the same time as that of Le Vaillant by Audebert and Vieillot, though the former, who was by profession a painter and illustrated the work, was already dead more than a year before the appearance of the two volumes, bearing date 2802, and entitled Oiseaux dores ou a reflets metalliques, the effect of the plates in which he sought to heighten by the lavish use of gilding.

  • Don Sigismundo Brun is credited with the invention of permanent gilding fixed by heat.

  • Tin amalgam is used for "silvering" mirrors, gold and silver amalgam in gilding and silvering, cadmium and copper amalgam in dentistry, and an amalgam of zinc and tin for the rubbers of electrical machines; the zinc plates of electric batteries are amalgamated in order to reduce polarization.

  • It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;--a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush--this the light dust-cloth--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.

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