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Gilding vs Girding - What's the difference?

gilding | girding |

As verbs the difference between gilding and girding

is that gilding is present participle of lang=en while girding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between gilding and girding

is that gilding is the art of applying gold leaf to a surface while girding is a binding or encircling.

gilding

English

(wikipedia gilding)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The art of applying gold leaf to a surface
  • (uncountable) Gold leaf
  • (countable) A coating of gold, etc.

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    girding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A binding or encircling.
  • * 1823 , Charles Butler, A continuation of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints to the Present Time (page 23)
    • Bossuet thus beautifully addresses the Saviour of the world, when the girdings of his childhood were first untied

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