Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name of gold pieces presented by English sovereigns to those whom they touched for the cure of king's evil.
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Examples
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Gabriel, with his angel-gold curls and dark, solemn eyes.
A GIFT OF LOVE Judith McNaught 1995
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Gabriel, with his angel-gold curls and dark, solemn eyes.
A GIFT OF LOVE Judith McNaught 1995
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Chaplaine kneeling, and having angel-gold strung on white ribbon on his arme, delivers them one by one to his Majestie, who puts them about the necks of the touched as they passe, whilst the first
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten
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Court, and she wore on her head a crown of pure angel-gold, so nurse said, and it shone like the sun, and it was much more splendid than the crown the king was wearing himself, and in her ears she wore the emeralds, and the big ruby was the brooch on her breast, and the great diamond necklace was sparkling on her neck.
The House of Souls Arthur Machen 1905
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There was in this bag several sigils, some of Jupiter in Trine, others of the nature of Venus, some of iron, and one of gold, of pure angel-gold, of the bigness of a thirty-three shilling piece of King James's coin.
William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 William Lilly 1641
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