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gold-filled

[ gohld-fild ]

adjective

, Jewelry.
  1. composed of a layer of gold backed with a base metal.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gold-filled1

First recorded in 1900–05

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Example Sentences

We stood beside the aquarium in the centre of the apartment, close to the vase of gold filled with flowers.

He chewed on his cigar with savage grinding of gold-filled teeth.

He had oily black hair, and smiled with gold-filled teeth before one came to the real point of a joke.

Sixteen jewels in its movement and a solid gold-filled twenty-year case—and fit for any lady in the land to wear.

Think of it, gentlemen, these dainty violets are hand painted, and the top is solid gold-filled.

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