white gold
Noun
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Noun
white gold
- (countable) A precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal such as platinum or palladium or other white metal such as nickel.
- Cotton, seen as a valuable commodity.
- Sugar, seen as a valuable commodity.
- China or porcelain, seen as a valuable commodity.
- (slang, uncountable) 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.
- French: or blanc
- German: Weißgold
- Italian: oro bianco
- Portuguese: ouro branco
- Russian: бе́лое зо́лото
- Spanish: oro blanco
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