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goldhoard en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English goldhord, golde hord, gold hord, golthord (“treasure”), from Old English goldhord (“treasure; treasury”). By surface analysis, gold + hoard.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:otherwise archaic or historical) Treasure; a treasury.
   • US investors continued to liquidate their goldhoards in London and repatriate the proceeds. 2013, Brendan Brown, The Flight of International Capital, page 1937:
   • The king is highly pleased now, but even more mistrustful, and will not release the other half of the goldhoard. 2012, Mark Atherton, There and Back Again:
   • The goldhoards were possibly sufficient, especially when supplemented by the import from Africa, to support a gold currency. 2014, Norman John Greville Pounds, An Economic History of Medieval Europe:
   • In the Chronicle it is distinctly stated that the Roman soldiers did before leaving Britain in 418 bury goldhoards (treasures) in the earth. 1861, Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, Theodore C. Wilks, Charles Lockhart, A General History of Hampshire:
   • The Romans gathered all the gold-hoards there were in Britain; some they hid in the earth, so that no man might find them, and some they took with them to Gaul. 2013, Mike Ashley, A Brief History of King Arthur:
   • There may be recorded or potential archaeological associations with many of the names seen in earlier chapters, referring, e.g., to windmills, dovecotes, early pits and quarries, chapels, gold-hoards, and mounds. 2014, John Field, A History of English Field Names:

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