Crossword-Solution: GILDING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gilding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Gild |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GILDING | anagram | GLIDING |
We have 11 clues for the answer “GILDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adorning unnecessarily | 1 answer |
| MANUSCRIPT illumination material used to provide a glowing richness | 1 answer |
| Yellowish embellishment | 1 answer |
| metal color | 1 answer |
| metal colour | 1 answer |
| Superficial coating. | 2 answers |
| Gold | 43 answers |
| Embellishment | 48 answers |
| pigment | 58 answers |
| Adornment | 59 answers |
| Ornamentation | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GILDING (5)
She need never tremble in secret lest she might sometime stretch a point in Thea’s favor.—Oh, the comfort, to a soul too zealous, of having at last a rose so red it could not be further painted, a lily so truly auriferous that no amount of gilding could exceed the fact! Tillie hurried from her bedroom, threw open the doors and windows, and let the morning breeze blow through her little house.
There was a volume of Pope, with the Rape of the Lock in it, and another of the Tatler, and an odd one of Dryden’s Miscellanies, all with tarnished gilding on their covers, and thoughts of tarnished brilliancy inside.
Here you are bound by the very quality on which you've prided yourself to behave well to a bit of earthenware who is apparently in danger of losing the gilding that rendered her tolerable." "We never cared for the money," said Mrs.
Polishing the Daguerreotype Plate—Buffing the Plate—Coating the Plate—Exposure of the Plate in the Camera—Position—Developing the Daguerreotype—Exposure to Mercury—Removing the Coating—Gilding or fixing the Image—Coloring Daguerreotype.
Many Daguerreotypists, after a superficial trial, discard the hyposulphite of gold as inferior; but I have no hesitation in asserting that the fault lies with themselves; for in every case within my knowledge, where its use has been persisted in until the correct method has been ascertained and the nature of the gilding has become familiar, it is always preferred.
Quotes with GILDING (3)
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.
The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy.
No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. In their eyes the merit of an object which is in any degree either useful or beautiful is greatly enhanced by …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1963–2014).