What is the meaning of gilded?

verb

• Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.
  • synonyms: gild, begild, engild

adjective

• Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
  • usage: "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
  • synonyms: aureate, gilt, gold, golden
• Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.
  • usage: "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
  • synonyms: meretricious, specious
• Rich and superior in quality.
  • usage: "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
  • synonyms: deluxe, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous
• Made from or covered with gold.
  • usage: "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"
  • synonyms: gold, golden