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