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(adj) aureate, gold, golden, gilt
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
long aureate (or golden) hair; a gold carpet
made from or covered with gold
gold coins; the gold dome of the Capitol; the golden calf; gilded icons
(adj) princely, sumptuous, luxurious, grand, opulent, deluxe
rich and superior in quality
a princely sum; gilded dining rooms
(adj) meretricious, specious
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility; meretricious praise; a meretricious argument