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
1 Americannoun
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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British
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
The belt for the 170-pound class rested next to him on a table, the leather-encased gold plate shining as brightly as Usman’s metallic suit lapels and his diamond necklace.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2021
“I witnessed the transformation of Melania from gold plate into twenty-four karat gold. I believed she had the heart to match.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
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
I don’t mean furniture, or silver, or even gold-plate, or works of art, for it is full of the most magnificent old things that you can imagine.
From The Lady of the Shroud by Stoker, Bram
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
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
A year later, President Lyndon B. Johnson broke ground for what was to become “a living memorial to John F. Kennedy” with the gold-plated spade that President Taft had used for the Lincoln Memorial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 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
Then the store gave me another present: a long, thick- linked, gold-plated chain that swung down lower than my coat hem.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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
The company founder, famed for receiving backing from James Caan on Dragons' Den for his patented gold-plating technique, believes it is a pretty simple management premise.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2013
The gold-plating was literal for anyone who invested in the deluxe CD.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2012
During gold-plating there is a considerable advantage in keeping the electrodes moving or the solution stirred.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
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