gilded

having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

• “long aureate (or golden) hair”
• “a gold carpet”

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

• “the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility”
• “meretricious praise”
• “a meretricious argument”

rich and superior in quality

• “a princely sum”
• “gilded dining rooms”

made from or covered with gold

• “gold coins”
• “the gold dome of the Capitol”
• “the golden calf”
• “gilded icons”