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: covered or tinged with gold or a golden color
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The reception room, just off the entryway, features colorful wall and ceiling decorations and a gilded overmantel mirror and matching cornices.—
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: having a background of wealth and luxury : prosperous, luxurious
Emily Post was raised among New York's gilded elite.—Susan Berfield
Susan Berfield… despite the upper-crust background and the gilded résumé, Bonham Carter is a pretty modern chick off stage.—Elizabeth Gleick
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Everybody wants this: the gilded age of 2000s nostalgia, front and center at the 2025 Emmys.
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During New York’s gilded age, sprawling estates of every European style filled Southampton’s oceanfront.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 24 June 2025
On June 16, 2015, Trump took his fateful trip down Trump Tower’s gilded escalator to announce his Presidential candidacy.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
But beyond the gilded doors and glossy marble, the hotel’s spa offers the kind of tailored wellness that feels part ritual, part reset.
—Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
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EW.com, 15 July 2025
During New York’s gilded age, sprawling estates of every European style filled Southampton’s oceanfront.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 24 June 2025
On June 16, 2015, Trump took his fateful trip down Trump Tower’s gilded escalator to announce his Presidential candidacy.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
But beyond the gilded doors and glossy marble, the hotel’s spa offers the kind of tailored wellness that feels part ritual, part reset.
—Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for gilded
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“Gilded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gilded. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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