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How to use gilding in a sentence

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He set his goblet on the table between them, fingers lingering to absently trace the gilding.
Gold foil is used for decorative gilding coatings in, for example books, church furniture, steeples and statues.
And this dining room is the most elegantly pretty in London, a marvellous fondant of gilding, marble and airhead fresco.
The chair, with its handsome gilding, is covered in a crimson silk damask that is similar to the original.
I like his playing, and he is a fine musician, but sometimes it feels like he is gilding the lily in these performances.
But I'm not gilding the lily, I truly thought it was impossible, and I refused to address myself emotionally.
You can't scrape off the gilding and pretend that what's left is unchanged in value.
It was like a step-by-step gilding demonstration straight from a Renaissance painting.
But the original paint and gilding are deteriorating and a replacement roof over the chapel has sagged and is resting on the mediaeval ceiling.
The Rococo style, characterized by lavish ornamentation, organic forms and the use of gilding, grew to its height in 18th century France.
The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay.
The back of the slab had been worn very hollow, but the gilding and colour on the front were found to be in an excellent state of preservation.
The amber mosaic panels between the long mirrors and gilding have been painstakingly reproduced and constructed by Russian craftsmen.
Like Whistler, he was much concerned with the shade of gold leaf and the play of matte and bright gilding.
The gilding and frills of the eighteenth century were stripped away in favor of the natural beauty of materials and shapes.
In tempera painting the most spectacular technique to combine gilding and paint is that of sgraffito, most often used to depict cloth of gold.
Designs used blown glass techniques with little cutting and engraving but no painting or gilding.
Misery gave way to elation, however, when spears of sunlight rent the clouds, gilding the watery flatlands of Lewis.
At the same time, a modern oil-gilt finish was removed, revealing that nothing survived of the chair's original gilding.
Instead of gilding and elaborate flourishes, such beds have more modest detailing and are painted in subtle pale greys and beiges.
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Muelle uses quantities of solid embroidery and appliqu work, where other costumers are content with stenciling and gilding.
The gilding all stripped from the bauble which till then had made her happy.
Previous to this, the light dust should be blown from the gilding, and a feather or a clean brush lightly passed over it.
Transfer gold-leaf is convenient, but the greasiness of the transfer paper is apt to dim the gilding.
The shield can he made by gilding or covering a barrel-head with silver paper.
The patterns of the Kurnool ware are floral, and in slight relief, and the colours are very bright with much gilding.
Gold-leaf gilding, even if it is unburnished, is infinitely more brilliant than either gold paint or shell gold.
The palisades were of iron, though the tops were tipped with gilding, and they were very high.
Rich as it is in gilding, wrought-iron, marble and paintings, it looks small and unimposing after the great chapel of St Jago.
Never was there such gilding of the lily, such painstaking practice of trill and mordent.
But a dab of varnish, a touch of gilding here and there, was all that was necessary.
My mind is a confused jumble of onyx and gilding and 216 mosaic floors and palms.
Many of them were well carved in wood, and ornamented with emblazonry and gilding.
The chinaware is very fine, the painting and gilding good, and this ware also is very durable.
The next step in the direction of ornament is gilding, the next inlaying.
I fancy I saw him the other evening gilding along the lanes of Belleville.
And when they came he was colouring some Cordovan leather, and gilding it.
Most of the gilding was worn off by the frequent scourings which it had undergone beneath the hands of a black slave.
We rake the grass, and then, gilding refined gold, we sweep it.
He supported many monks, he gave largely to the gilding of the pagoda.
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