Begild vs Begold - What's the difference?
begild | begold |
To cover with or as with gold.
*1953 , Edward Morgan Forster, The Hill of Devi :
To make like gold; golden.
*1907 , John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's weekly :
Begold is a synonym of begild.
In transitive terms the difference between begild and begold
is that begild is to gild; to cover with gold while begold is to make like gold; golden.begold
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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; [...]
- [...] 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?