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Example sentences for: gilt
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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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