gilt

The plates have a gilt edge.

gilt-edged securities; gilt-edged credentials.

the tunic was fastened with a row of gilt buttons.

The plates and bowls have a gilt edge.

the striker failed to convert three gilt-edged chances.

They planned to have the gilts farrow down about the end of this month.

The screen was an old one, of gilt Spanish leather, stamped and wrought with a rather florid louis-Quatorze pattern.

a fully gilt version of Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby’s Cidade surtout de table (candelabra) and a monochromatic edition of their hand-blown glass Cupola reading table;

He’s offered us his villa by the sea for two weeks.The only problem is that we can only have it in February, which rather takes the gilt off the gingerbread.

" Is it of silver gilt" ? I asked him.

However, this yield rise could be offset if the Bank buys more gilts in a further extension of QE.

And she saw framed in the cracking gilt molding a stranger.

" Gild" is a verb. It means to cover with a fine layer of gilt.

Sometimes we add gilt to a plain material like wood to make it look better.

The rout in British gilts was the most dramatic element of a wider sell-off in government bonds.

The Bank of England acted again to stabilise bond markets and increased its maximum daily purchases of long-dated gilts.

And a lot of times that meant selling gilts, and so gilts were falling really fast.

Before we talk about today's idiom, let's talk about words that you will need to know – gilt and gild.

I really thought you were gonna say gilts there.