Gilder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɡɪldə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gilder is a noun meaning One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.
Meaning
One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.
More Meanings
- (archaic, rare) Alternative spelling of guilder.
Example Sentences
He was a painter and gilder. [...] Now could the poor gilder no longer get paid by his employers.
The leather gilders lay a Couch of water and whites of eggs on the leather, before they apply the leaf gold or ſilver.
On the Costa, a street full of gilders, carpenters, carvers, and stucco experts, their status as Inglesi—bourgeois as well as fine artists—set them apart.
Indeed, economic resource, previously assigned to physical ornamentation, the gold of the gilder, is here plowed into the control right down to the last half-millimeter.
Word Forms
- gilders
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include guilder, gelt, fire-gilding, golding, giltwood, goldware.
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