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Gilder   /gˈɪldər/   Listen
Gilder

noun
1.
Someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt.





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"Gilder" Quotes from Famous Books



... sentiment of human decency came from Lord Byron, and that his honour was lost. Maginn does not undertake the memoir. No memoir at all is undertaken; till finally Moore is selected, as, like Demetrius of old, a well-skilled gilder and 'maker of silver shrines,' though not for Diana. To Moore is committed the task of doing his best for this battered image, in which even the worshippers recognise foul sulphurous cracks, but which they none the less stand ready to worship as a genuine ...
— Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... upside-down, Babel of hers, under the eaves, with its unvolcanic slime for mortar; and the two ants who are asking of each other at the turn of that little ant's-foot-worn bath through the moss "lor via e lor fortuna;" and the builders also, who built yonder pile of cloud-marble in the west, and the gilder who gilded it, and is gone down ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Gilder" :   trained worker, skilled workman, gild, skilled worker


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