gold plate
noun
tableware or containers made of gold.
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gold-plateverb (used with object)to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
gold plate
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gold plates
plural
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tableware or containers made of gold.
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a plating, especially electroplating, of gold.
gold-plate
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American
[gohld-pleyt]
/ ˈgoʊldˈpleɪt /
verb (used with object)
gold-plated,
gold-plating
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to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
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to incorporate costly features or refinements into (something) unnecessarily.
The engineers were accused of gold-plating the construction project.
gold plate
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noun
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a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
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vessels or utensils made of gold
gold-plate
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verb
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That set off a fresh attempt to gold plate banking standards for the second time in a generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Fountain, ballpoint and rollerball pens are available — finished in 24-carat gold plate, rhodium, titanium, sterling silver and gunmetal.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
Both pieces are available in recycled brass, sterling silver and gold plate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
At 169 feet tall, it’s massive, and as shiny as real gold — because it is real gold, or rather, gold plate.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2018
They were making boudoirs for her, and taking the tapestries out of his bachelor bedroom to go in hers, and polishing the silver, and sending to the nearest neighbours for the loan of gold plate.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The Dolce Hanoi Golden Lake Hotel had a makeover last year using a tonne of the metal to gold-plate everything from bath tubs to toilets, all housed behind a gold exterior.
From Reuters ● Dec. 10, 2021
“It’s not to gold-plate it,” Mr. Schumer said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
On her graduation day, Hayley’s parents presented her with a leather and gold-plate bracelet, etched with Psalm 37:4: “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.”
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2016
It meant the loss of one of his favourite lines: "I've got so much gold I gold-plate my gold" but he maintains he is happy with how the music integrates with the action.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2012
Just think of this gold-plate fact: no one knows anything about it.
From The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith
Plus, Hodin, 37, a freelance writer who chronicled her “groomzilla” experience for Vogue, admires his gold-plated tastes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The first statuettes, introduced at the inaugural ceremony in 1929, were gold-plated solid bronze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Although the term is clinically obsolete, examples of male peacocking are as close as the nearest bejeweled Patek Philippe, sterling-silver rodeo belt buckle or jumped-up, gold-plated pickup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
The court heard Mr Brandt made reference to "wanting to shake her hand" about 10 times in his emails, including one that described her as having a "gold-plated and precious hand".
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
He watched her face closely as she took in the nearly eight-foot-tall, gold-plated statue in the corner.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
These include industrial waste from microchip manufacturing or from gold-plating processes.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
But that’s before a trio of late stories achieve an alchemical feat, gold-plating the collection’s themes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2018
They were presented with issues which farmers believed were holding back the industry in Northern Ireland, including the "gold-plating" of regulations by officials and problems obtaining planning permission because of ammonia concerns.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2018
At Chancery and with the Dedlocks, he lays on the pomp and circumstance as if taking the English language and gold-plating it.
From Time ● Feb. 7, 2012
During gold-plating there is a considerable advantage in keeping the electrodes moving or the solution stirred.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
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