| 1. | tableware or containers made of gold. |
| 2. | a plating, esp. electroplating, of gold. |
[gohld-pleyt] 
| 1. | to coat (base metal) with gold, esp. by electroplating. |
| 2. | to incorporate costly features or refinements into (something) unnecessarily: The engineers were accused of gold-plating the construction project. |