gilded

gilded
    adj 1: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long
           aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn:
           {aureate}, {gilded}, {gilt}, {gold}, {golden}]
    2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and
       perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious
       praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: {gilded},
       {meretricious}, {specious}]
    3: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded
       dining rooms" [syn: {deluxe}, {gilded}, {grand}, {luxurious},
       {opulent}, {princely}, {sumptuous}]
    4: made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome
       of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons" [syn:
       {gold}, {golden}, {gilded}]
    

Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gilded} or {Gilt}
   (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gilding}.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
   [root]234. See {Gold}.]
   1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a
      golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded
      chariots." --Pope.
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            No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
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   2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
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            Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
            Gild the calm evening of your day.    --Trumbull.
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   3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
      embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
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   4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
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            This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
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54 Moby Thesaurus words for "gilded":
      apparent, aureate, auric, beige, buff, buff-yellow, canary,
      canary-yellow, citron, citron-yellow, colorable, colored, cream,
      creamy, ecru, fallow, flaxen, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden,
      lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, meretricious, ocherish,
      ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or,
      ostensible, plausible, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow,
      saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored,
      sandy, seeming, specious, straw, straw-colored, tinsel, xanthic,
      xanthous, yellow, yellowish