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gilts

noun

plural of gilt
as in embroideries

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  1. embroideries
  2. figures
  3. improvements
  4. enhancements
Noun
  • Her scrolled embroideries have since been described as tirades, rants, and screeds—no horses or cables, just the language pummeling the eye.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Her own granddaughter's baptism dress included embroideries copied from that dress.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
Definition of embroideries
Noun
  • In dressage competitions, horses follow a short sequence of bouncing walks and trots, pirouettes and figures-of-eight.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • And the number moved enough that the Census Bureau took the unusual step of declaring the old and new figures incomparable, creating a new time series from December 4, 2025, and filing the earlier data under historical.
    — Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of figures
Noun
  • His team noticed improvements in his sleep data in recent years.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Ohio contractor Kwest Group started the improvements in April and is scheduled to finish them in May 2028.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of improvements
Noun
  • Lockheed also highlighted that its FLEX airframe will provide a modular airframe that gets ahead of subcomponent obsolescence, provides future capability enhancements to outpace threats and enable scalability at the production factory.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The agreement also calls for sentencing enhancements because the offense involved what federal guidelines describe as sophisticated money laundering.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of enhancements
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“Gilts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gilts. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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