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English
Etymology
From be- + gold.
Verb
begold (third-person singular simple present begolds, present participle begolding, simple past and past participle begolded)
- (transitive) To cover with or as with gold.
1953, Edward Morgan Forster, The Hill of Devi: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; [...]
- (transitive) To make like gold; golden.
1907, John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's weekly:[...] 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?
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