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old gold n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) a. a dark yellow colour, sometimes with a brownish tinge b. (as adjective) an old-gold carpet ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Mr Verloc was going westward through a town without shadows in an atmosphere of powdered old gold. At eight o'clock the next evening Aunt Ellen took a quaint old gold ring from a moth-eaten case and gave it to Richard. The old gold and silver coins of the country were of ancient and unknown origin, as a rule, but some of them were Roman; they were ill-shapen, and seldom rounder than a moon that is a week past the full; they were hammered, not minted, and they were so worn with use that the devices upon them were as illegible as blisters, and looked like them. |
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