silver gilt
an ornamental coating of silver, silver leaf, or a silver-colored substance.
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How to use silver gilt in a sentence
From the center of the ceiling hung, suspended by a golden chain, a silver gilt lamp, in which burned a perfumed oil.
Chicot the Jester | Alexandre Dumas, PereAnd Chicot perceived, by the feeble light of the lamp, a silver gilt box, richly chased.
Chicot the Jester | Alexandre Dumas, PereOne night, as he was thus amusing himself, a mannikin came up to him and offered him drink in a silver-gilt beaker.
The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney HartlandProbably of Spanish workmanship, it is of silver gilt repouss work, and was presented by the Duchess of Dudley in 1665.
Warwickshire | Clive HollandThis reliquary is a fine piece of silver-gilt work, with two dozen beautiful panels of blue enamel.
Cathedral Cities of Italy | William Wiehe Collins
British Dictionary definitions for silver-gilt
silver covered with a thin film of gold
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