gilder

plural gilders · alternative guilder

1. One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.

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

   1810 January, “O.” [pseudonym], “Remarkable Benevolence”, in The Christian’s Magazine: Designed to Promote the Knowledge and Influence of Evangelical Truth and Order, volume III, number I, New York, N.Y.: Published by Williams and Whiting, […]; J. Seymour, printer, →OCLC, page 29

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   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.

   1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 532

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

   1735, [John Barrow], “COUCH”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC

   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.

   1767, Thomas Mortimer, “GILDER”, in A New and Complete Dictionary of Trade and Commerce: […], volume II, London: Printed for the author; and sold by S. Crowder, […]; and J. Coote, […]; and J. Fletcher, […], →OCLC, column 2

   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.

   1887, Karl Marx, “Division of Labour and Manufacture”, in Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, transl., edited by Frederick [i.e., Friedrich] Engels, Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production: Translated from the Third German Edition, volume I, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., […], →OCLC, part IV (Production of Relative Surplus-value), section 1 (Twofold Origin of Manufacture), page 327

   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.

   1974, “An Old Potter”, in John Burnett, editor, Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN; republished London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 1994, →ISBN, part III (Skilled Workers), page 303

plural gilders

1. alternativearchaicrareAlternative spelling of guilder.

   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.

   1743, [Henry Lawson], “The Manner in which Strangers Live at the Hague”, in A Description of Holland: Or, The Present State of the United Provinces. […], London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 208

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   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: [...]

   c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 85, column 1

   [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; [...]

   1621, Orders and Articles Granted by the High and Mightie Lords the States General of the Vnited Provinces, Concerning the Erecting of a VVest Indian Companie: Together with the Priuiledges and Rights Giuen vnto the Same, [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, clause 13

   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; [...]

   1820, Simon van Leeuwen, “Of Gifts and Presents”, in Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law. Translated from the Dutch, London: Printed by A[ndrew] Strahan, […]; for Joseph Butterworth and Son, […], and J. Cooke, […], →OCLC, §3, page 447

   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.

   1958, Alec Waugh, “Antigua”, in The Sugar Islands. A Collection of Pieces Written about the West Indies between 1928 and 1953, London: Cassell, →OCLC, page 263; republished London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, →ISBN

   [...] 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, [...]).

   2002, Richard Portes, Georges de Menil, Hans-Werner Sinn, editors, Economic Policy: 35, London: Blackwell, →ISBN, page 556

plural Gilders

1. A surname.

   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."

   1910 April 22, “Mark Twain is Dead at 74”, in The New York Times