Meaning of gilded
Definition of gilded
(adj)
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
ostentatiously rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"; "these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous"