white gold en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(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.
It’s a slender band of white gold. It’ll be rather lovely once it fades.
2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 371:
- (countable, uncountable) Any white commodity seen as valuable. ▸ Cotton
- (countable, uncountable) Any white commodity seen as valuable. ▸ Sugar
- (countable, uncountable) Any white commodity seen as valuable. ▸ China or porcelain
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(countable, uncountable) Any white commodity seen as valuable. ▸ Cocaine.
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.
Forms
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Translations (27)
cmn 白色黃金 /白色黄金 (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · cmn 白色K金 (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · de Weißgold (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · crh aq altın (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · fa طلا سفید (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · hu fehérarany (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · it oro bianco (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · nl witgoud (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · ro aur alb (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · es oro blanco (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · vi vàng trắng (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · pl białe złoto (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · cmn 白金 (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · bg бяло злато (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · gl ouro branco (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · th ทองคำขาว (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · ja 白色金 (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · fi valkokulta (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · fa اسپیدزر (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · ja ホワイトゴールド (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · fr or blanc (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · th ทองขาว (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · ko 화이트골드 (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · ko 백색금 (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · sv vitguld (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · pt ouro branco (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal) · ru бе́лое зо́лото (any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal)