begold

present singular third person begolds · participle present begolding · participle past begolded · past begolded

1. transitiveTo cover with or as with gold.

   I wore a long dressing gown of palish purple spattered with gold flowers and beneath it a green waistcoat, also begolded, and on my head a fantastic headdress of red and gold; also white trousers; [...]

   1953, Edward Morgan Forster, The Hill of Devi

   Synonyms: begild, gild

2. transitiveTo make like gold; golden.

   [...] as the mellowed north winds tone forth their vestal hymns upon rustling leaf-keys; sunsets that bepurple the azure; sunrises that begold the horizon; moonlights that besilver the river? Who would not have of these?

   1907, John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's weekly