verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lily
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Instead of gilding the lily the photographs added atmosphere - a sense of history.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even the horn was of a much lighter colour than usual, although it had been gilded with silver.
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If it was a time of science and silks and gilded barges, it was also a time of pox.
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Now, naked, simmering with annoyance, the deepening light gilding him, he was no less imposing.
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She simply knows that icons, even the most gilded of them, are made to be hung on a wall.
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The skulls were gilded and taken out for yearly veneration.
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There was the altar, with its gilded borders and red sheen that absorbed the glazed white bowls and cups.
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When Joe inquired about these details, the duke said that gilded window frames were economical because they required no repainting.
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Wind and sun had gilded her arms and legs honey-brown, hiding the last of the fading bruises.