white gold
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Noun
editwhite gold (countable and uncountable, plural white golds)
- (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.
- (uncountable) Any white commodity seen as valuable.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Platinum.
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editany precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal
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edit- white gold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia