All that glitters is not gold.well i've learned a new word today. didn't know gilt was a word beforehand. for anyone too lazy to look it up themselves it basically means covered in gold or a golden color. in layman's terms it means something made to look better than it really is.
That sounds more like "gilded" than "gilted"well i've learned a new word today. didn't know gilt was a word beforehand. for anyone too lazy to look it up themselves it basically means covered in gold or a golden color. in layman's terms it means something made to look better than it really is.
it does make sense in the context of this chapter:That sounds more like "gilded" than "gilted"
(and yes, I know they are synonyms (more exactly, "gilt" vs "gilded", former being the thing a latter thing has). That's my joke. Although admittedly the tl's choice of word being the unsual one is a bit odd/unexpected)