gold plate
noun
tableware or containers made of gold.
gold plates
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pluralof gold plate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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What was stolen: at least 198 gold items, including ornaments in the form of flowers; gold plates; rare old weapons; 300-year-old silver coins; and special medals.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2022
But the oversize golden egg on a series of gold plates did seem archaic — and not just because the French Laundry has used this presentation, for various dishes, for years.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2019
Doran honors Sher’s Lear by kitting him out as a kind of hunting deity, blanketed in fur and bedecked with gold plates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2016
From the pledge notes I’ve seen in roughly 100 manuscripts and descriptions of manuscripts, it’s clear that scholars hocked everything from silver spoons to gold plates.
From Time ● Aug. 2, 2016
The results were remark able by any standard—one delicate bust that Lechtman analyzed was less than an inch tall but made of twenty-two separate gold plates painstakingly joined.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
