- a gold carpet.
- a meretricious argument.
- a princely sum.
- gilded dining rooms.
- gilded icons.
- gold coins.
- long aureate (or golden) hair.
- meretricious praise.
- the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility.
- the gold dome of the Capitol.
- the golden calf.
- these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous.