Meaning of Gilder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of guilder.
   alt-of, alternative, archaic, rare
2. A surname.
3. One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.

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Examples

“A lady ſhould, indeed, ſtudie her face⟳, when wee thinke ſhee ſleepes: nor, when the dores are ſhut, ſhould men bee inquiring, all is ſacred within, then. [...] you ſee guilders will not worke, but inclos'd. They muſt not diſcouer, how little ſerues, with the helpe of art, to adorne a great deale.”

“The leather gilders lay⟳ a Couch of water and whites of eggs on the leather, before they apply⟳ the leaf gold or ſilver.”

“Gilding in oil, or oily ſize, is uſed for domes, roofs of churches, ſtatues that are to ſtand in the weather, &c. For this purpoſe the Engliſh gilders generally adopt⟳ a gold ſize, made of yellow oker ground fine with water, and dried on a chalk ſtone, then ground up with a proper quantity of drying oil, to give⟳ it the ſtiffneſs required.”

“He was a painter and gilder. [...] Now could the poor gilder no longer get⟳ paid by his employers.”

“A carriage, for example, was formerly the product of the labour of a great number⟳ of independent artificers, such as wheelwrights, harness-makers, tailors, locksmiths, upholsterers, turners, fringe-makers, glaziers, painters, polishers, gilders, &c. [...] [I]f a number⟳ of carriages are being made simultaneously, some may be in the hands of the gilders while others are going through an earlier process⟳.”

“Charles Shaw was born in Tunstall, in the Potteries, in 1832, the son of a skilled painter and gilder in the pottery trade⟳ who lost this well-paid job through victimization after a strike⟳.”

“On the Costa, a street full of gilders, carpenters, carvers, and stucco experts, their status as Inglesi—bourgeois as well as fine artists—set⟳ them apart.”

“Indeed, economic resource, previously assigned to physical ornamentation, the gold of the gilder, is here plowed into the control⟳ right down to the last⟳ half-millimeter.”

“The enmity and diſcord which of late / Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke, / To Merchants our well-dealing Countrimen, / Who wanting gilders to redeeme their liues, / Haue ſeal'd his rigorous ſtatutes with their blouds, / Excludes all pitty from our threatning lookes: [...]”

“[N]one ſhall be choſen to be a Commiſſioner in the Court at Amſterdam, vnleſſe he put⟳ ſix thouſand gilders ſtocke of his owne in the ſaid Companie; [...]”

“On the Spuy is a good Dutch Inn, called the Hoff van Utrecht. The Price is a Gilder a Day, or a Shilling for the Dinner only.”

“In order⟳ to restrain excessive and inconsiderate liberality, it was introduced by the written laws, that no present⟳ exceeding the amount of five hundred gold gilders of Rome may exist⟳, unless it be made and confirmed publicly and lawfully in writing before the court of justice of the place⟳; [...]”

“On both sides they will confuse⟳ you by explaining that the Dutch gilder is the currency they prefer⟳—a type⟳ of coin you are certain to be without.”

“[...] i.e. the 11 'legacy' currencies replaced by the euro on 1 January 1999 (Portuguese escudo, Belgian and Luxembourg franc, French franc, Dutch gilder, Italian lira, [...]).”

“Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last⟳ year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me."”

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