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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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Similar to a design from the label’s spring 2025 ready-to-wear collection, the dress featured a gilded trompe-l’oeil tie detail.
—Hannah Malach, WWD, 9 Feb. 2025
Underneath the gilded serpentine arches at the city's new-ish hotspot Coqodaq, Phillip Lim thanked his closest friends and family for showing up at his fourth annual Lunar New Year celebration with Hennessy.
—Gaby Keiderling, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
Valentino featured vintage Levi’s 501 XX Big E jeans in its Fall/Winter 2023-2024 haute couture collection, using the jeans as a canvas for gilded embroidery.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 4 Feb. 2025
How does competitive inequality fit into the current tech world, or indeed the gilded halls of the Whitney and the Serpentine?
—Oskar Oprey, Artforum, 28 Jan. 2025
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Hannah Malach, WWD, 9 Feb. 2025
Underneath the gilded serpentine arches at the city's new-ish hotspot Coqodaq, Phillip Lim thanked his closest friends and family for showing up at his fourth annual Lunar New Year celebration with Hennessy.
—Gaby Keiderling, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
Valentino featured vintage Levi’s 501 XX Big E jeans in its Fall/Winter 2023-2024 haute couture collection, using the jeans as a canvas for gilded embroidery.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 4 Feb. 2025
How does competitive inequality fit into the current tech world, or indeed the gilded halls of the Whitney and the Serpentine?
—Oskar Oprey, Artforum, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Gilded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gilded. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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