Nor has Mr. Baitz, while obviously sympathizing with Malcolm's contempt for an age of gilded surfaces, overly loaded the dice.

First, the gilded surface is rubbed with a scratch brush of brass wire, until its surface is smooth.

All of the gilded and painted surfaces have been freshened, the upholstery changed and the metals brought to high glitter.

This coffin had been carefully stripped of the major portions of its gilded surface in antiquity and it has been suggested that this stripping was done in KV4.

At a glance they seemed to be functional despite their elaborately gilded and painted surfaces.

So you'll see a lot of gold, a lot of gilded surfaces.

He was a virtuoso in terracotta, often presented with gilded surfaces, marble and bronze.

A wedding gift from Gaylyn's father, the carriage's gilded surface still sparkled, even in the gray light.

Behind this gilded surface, however, the bank was decaying.

As an everyman, he is initially repulsed by the gruesome realities beneath society's gilded surfaces; eventually, however, he embraces them.