Gilt may refer to:
- Gilt (album), an album by Machines of Loving Grace
- Gilt Groupe, a 'flash' sale website
- Gilding, the application of a thin layer of precious metal
- Gilt-edged securities, also known as "gilts", government bonds issued in the United Kingdom for HM Treasury by the UK Debt Management Office
- A character in the book Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, called Reacher Gilt
- A gilt is a young female pig.
Famous quotes containing the word gilt:
“In that November off Tehuantepec,
The slopping of the sea grew still one night
And in the morning summer hued the deck
And made one think of rosy chocolate
And gilt umbrellas.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Edith: This complete loveliness will fade. And we shall forget what it was like.
Edward: Edith, don’t.
Edith: Oh, it’s bound to. Just a few years and the gilt wears off the gingerbread.
Edward: Darling, answer me one thing truthfully. Have you ever seen gingerbread with gilt on it?
Edith: [laughing] Fool!
Edward: Then the whole argument is disposed of.”
—Reginald Berkeley (1890 N1935)
“We are but warriors for the working day.
Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched
With rainy marching in the painful field.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)