silver gilt

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, Pere

• And Chicot perceived, by the feeble light of the lamp, a silver gilt box, richly chased.

  Chicot the Jester | Alexandre Dumas, Pere

• One 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 Hartland

• Probably of Spanish workmanship, it is of silver gilt repouss work, and was presented by the Duchess of Dudley in 1665.

  Warwickshire | Clive Holland

• This reliquary is a fine piece of silver-gilt work, with two dozen beautiful panels of blue enamel.

  Cathedral Cities of Italy | William Wiehe Collins