Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal variant of
gold . Specifically The corn-marigold: same asgold , 6.
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Examples
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If ever a girl deserved it, 'choked, and flourished her white handkerchief; Frampton saluted like my Lord and Louis XIV. rolled into one; and Warren and Gervas privately agreed that they did not know what was coming of the world, since Marksedge poachers had only to go to foreign parts to be coined goold in the silver mines.
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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We hardly knew what Lloyd George was saying, but the words "goold" and Klotz were repeated, and each time with exaggerated contempt.
Mises Dailies 2009
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We hardly knew what Lloyd George was saying, but the words "goold" and Klotz were repeated, and each time with exaggerated contempt.
Mises Dailies Murray N. Rothbard 2009
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Unfortunately, the D establishment continues to fetishize the goold old pre-civil rights days.
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The little motherless darlin ', with the goold hair I combed the knots out iv many's the time?
CHAPTER I 2010
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What I was after wantin 'was all the goold, the whole eight thousan'.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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Talking about the "goold old days" in class today gave me the idea to stop by the school this afternoon and catch up with the old staff there.
Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah 2008
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The goold old way is to promise the electorate a bunch of stuff, get their votes, get into power and then tell them all to bugger off.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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I tell you that I have never seen so many yanks on our island. crayling with them. i trye to tempt them with a pot of me goold, but they respaictfully decline and eat many avocados. cheeray-oh now.
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Lease Crutcher (bill lewis) is old money, old Seattle and $5 says they are tied in to Nickels and the goold old (Dem) boy gang ...
Sound Politics: "Operator in crane wreck has history of drug abuse" 2006
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