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Definition of aureate :
Golden; gilded.
Synonyms:
fancy, golden, favourable, orotund, rhetorical, overblown, meretricious, style, ruddy, plain, sanguine, florid, deluxe, flowery, lucky, sumptuous, chromatic, opulent, showy, halcyon, gilt, fortunate, luxurious, favorable, rubicund, flamboyant, grand, declamatory, fustian, swollen, gold, magniloquent, splashy, prosperous, grandiloquent, gilded, princely, high-sounding, sonorous, bombastic, high-flown, words, specious
Usage examples:
- Through the thick and choking darkness which has made 'The Lights of London' a proverb, we beheld the glittering of three aureate orbs. - "HE", Andrew Lang.
- From them came the gem fires piercing the aureate mists. - "The Metal Monster", A. Merritt.
- One of the more remote has turned a marvellous tone- a seemingly diaphanous aureate color, the very ghost of gold. - "Two Years in the French West Indies", Lafcadio Hearn.