Meaning of white gold | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal such as platinum or palladium or other white metal such as nickel.
   countable
2. Any white commodity seen as valuable.
   countable, uncountable
3. Cotton
   countable, uncountable
4. Sugar
   countable, uncountable
5. China or porcelain
   countable, uncountable
6. Cocaine.
   countable, uncountable
7. Platinum.
   obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“It’s a slender band of white gold. It’ll be rather lovely once it fades.”

“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.”

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