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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.
    • 2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 371:
      It’s a slender band of white gold. It’ll be rather lovely once it fades.
  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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