| 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. |
| gold plate | |
noun | |
| 1. | tableware that is plated with gold |
| 2. | a thin plating of gold on something |
verb | |
| 1. | plate with gold; "goldplate a watch" [syn: goldplate] |