Example sentences for: gilt

How can you use “gilt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On Rua General Alberta da Silveira, the tiny chapel Igreja de Santo António, an exuberant gilt Baroque work and one of the Algarve’s finest churches, was rebuilt soon after the earthquake.

  • Louis XIII had hoped to turn his favorite hunting ground into a modest retirement home, but his son and heir made it the center of a universe, proclaiming his own grandeur in an edifice of brick, marble, gilt, and crystal.

  • There are hundreds of stone steps in the hillside to walk up before you reach Man Fat Temple with its regiments of small gilt statues of Buddha lining the walls.

  • The gilt has gone from the freshly restored façade of the 15th-century Ca’ d’Oro (Golden House), but it’s still the town’s most beautiful and best preserved of the city’s Gothic palaces and home to the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti Museum.

  • Part of the museum, which occupies a former convent, is the fabulous interior of the small church of Igreja da Madre de Deus, a heady mix of gilt Rococo and gorgeous azulejos.


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