begold

verb — 2 senses

begold

verb

Etymology From be- + gold.

1

To cover with or as with gold.

I wore a long dressing gown of palish purple spattered with gold flowers and beneath it a green waistcoat, also begolded, and on my head a fantastic headdress of red and gold; also white trousers; [...]1953, Edward Morgan Forster, The Hill of Devi:

2

To make like gold; golden.

[...] as the mellowed north winds tone forth their vestal hymns upon rustling leaf-keys; sunsets that bepurple the azure; sunrises that begold the horizon; moonlights that besilver the river? Who would not have of these?1907, John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's weekly:

Synonyms: begild, gild

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