The word "gild" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used as a verb that means to cover with a thin layer of gold, to adorn or to embellish. For example: The beautiful reredos was gilded with gold leaf on top.
The three other blacks in the row stood up meekly, but when the driver ordered Mrs Parks out, she said, firmly, "No .Related items Simone Weil and Rosa Parks: Two kinds of heroismJul 19th 2001In the mythology that came to gild this scene, Mrs Parks, who was 42, was said to have complained that her feet were tired.
What is still striking is how much we depend, as investors and commentators, on executives to report accurately the financial conditions of their firms, when those managers have every incentive to gild the lily.
G4S, a British-based security firm, was hoping that handling security for the games (which it, too, sponsors, though not at the top level) would gild its reputation.
White stains, a product of rainwater from above and vapour from the crowds below, gild the ceiling of Central Lobby, the vast chamber between the lower and upper houses.
Guild, also spelled gild, an association of craftsmen or merchants formed for mutual aid and protection and for the furtherance of their professional interests.
The most workable of metals, gold has been forged, chased, embossed, engraved, inlayed, cast, and in the form of gold leaf used to gild metals, woods, leather, and parchment.
It is, perhaps, too much to hope that he can deny the Spanish a first World Cup, but he can certainly gild his own, anarchic dominion with a final, unfeasible flourish or two.
In the end, Kimberly took the long walk, having conspicuously failed to gild the turd Phil had forced on her, but she can at least pat herself on the back for having helped put The Apprentice back on track.
The same with Facebook, which I shunned as a time-wasting ego-boost until earlier this year two friends and I (one of them Andy Watt, whose gorgeous drawings gild the lily you're now looking at each week) decided that it would be a handy way to promote our brilliant cartoon creations Booze & Fagz.
Community papers can do this stuff: they can grill or gild local power, make space for voices outside it, and tell you where to find the chili-pepper festival or the soup kitchen or the voting booth.
Charm and restraint gild his careful repetitions and variations.
