white gold

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white gold (countable and uncountable, plural white golds)

  1. (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.
  2. (uncountable) Any white commodity seen as valuable
    1. Cotton
    2. Sugar
    3. China or porcelain
    4. 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.
  3. (obsolete, uncountable) Platinum.

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