Definition of "silver-gilt" []

• Silver covered with gilding; also, gilded articles of silver. (noun)
• A close imitation of real gilding, made by applying silver-leaf, burnishing the surface, and then coating with a transparent yellow lacquer. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Sitting in the Mikhailovsky's pretty apricot and silver-gilt auditorium among the Russian critics and invited guests, you could feel the tension."
• "Made in the Upper Rhine region around 1210, it consists of a wooden bust that housed numerous relics and a hammered silver-gilt head that covered it like a divine skin, replete with a jeweled brow band."
• "Beneath the light, against your white front door, the smallest moths, like Chinese fans, flatten themselves, silver and silver-gilt over pale yellow, orange, or gray."