white gold
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Noun
white gold (countable and uncountable, plural white golds)
- (countable) Any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal such as platinum or palladium or other white metal such as nickel.
- (uncountable) Any white commodity seen as valuable
- Cotton
- Sugar
- China or porcelain
- Cocaine.
- 1989, Gabriel G. Nahas, Helene Peters, Cocaine: The Great White Plague, page 122:
- Fleets of planes flew in their daily cargo of white gold, first extracted from coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia and then refined in Colombia.
- 1989, Gabriel G. Nahas, Helene Peters, Cocaine: The Great White Plague, page 122:
- (obsolete, uncountable) Platinum.
Translations
any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal
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See also
- white gold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia