In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GILDED
aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden
(adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; “long aureate (or golden) hair”; “a gold carpet”
gold, golden, gilded
(adjective) made from or covered with gold; “gold coins”; “the gold dome of the Capitol”; “the golden calf”; “gilded icons”
deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous, lush
(adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality; “a princely sum”; “gilded dining rooms”; “these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous”
gilded, meretricious, specious, glossy
(adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; “the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility”; “meretricious praise”; “a meretricious argument”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
gilded
simple past tense and past participle of gild
Adjective
gilded
Having the color or quality of gold.
Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold.
Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated.
Anagrams
• glided
Source: Wiktionary
GILD
Gild, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] Etym: [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. sq. root234. See Gold.]
1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope.
2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.
3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak.
4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.] This grand liquior that hath gilded them. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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