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Example sentences for: gilt

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The clock mechanism, all gilt and polychrome enamel, still keeps perfect time, activating statues of two green bronze Moors that hammer out the hour.
Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.
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.
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.