GILT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gilt mean? 

• GILT (noun)
  The noun GILT has 1 sense:

1. a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold

  Familiarity information: GILT used as a noun is very rare.

• GILT (adjective)
  The adjective GILT has 1 sense:

1. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

  Familiarity information: GILT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GILT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coating of gold or of something that looks like gold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gilding; gilt

Hypernyms ("gilt" is a kind of...):

coat; coating (a thin layer covering something)

Derivation:

gilt (having the deep slightly brownish color of gold)

• GILT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

Synonyms:

aureate; gilded; gilt; gold; golden

Context example:

a gold carpet

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

gilt (a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold)

 Context examples 

Very fine and rich it was, with beams painted and gilt, wheels and spokes carved in strange figures, and over all an arched cover of red and white tapestry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bulkheads, all painted in clear white and beaded round with gilt, bore a pattern of dirty hands.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Three gilt balls and a brown board with “JABEZ WILSON” in white letters, upon a corner house, announced the place where our red-headed client carried on his business.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I stared hard myself at her flat, grizzled hair, her trim cap, her little gilt earrings, her placid features; but I could see nothing which could account for my companion’s evident excitement.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Gold and scarlet in arabesque designs gleamed upon the walls, with gilt dragons and monsters writhing along cornices and out of corners.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I got out of the coach, gave a box I had into the ostler's charge, to be kept till I called for it; paid my fare; satisfied the coachman, and was going: the brightening day gleamed on the sign of the inn, and I read in gilt letters, The Rochester Arms.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A gilt harp, blotched with many stains and with two of its strings missing, was tucked under one of his arms, while with the other he scooped greedily at his platter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

None could seem more safe and secure and at her ease than this lady, yet here also was a symbol of human life, for in an instant, even as Alleyne reined aside to let the carriage pass, a wheel flew out from among its fellows, and over it all toppled—carving, tapestry and gilt—in one wild heap, with the horses plunging, the postilion shouting, and the lady screaming from within.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A jupon of dark blue cloth, tagged with buckles and pendants of gold, seemed but a sombre and plain attire amidst the wealth of silk and ermine and gilt tissue of fustian with which he was surrounded.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)