gold-plating

[ gohld-pley-ting ]

noun

1. the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
2. any expensive nonessential item, convenience, or feature:

   an apartment with a sauna and other gold-plating.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gold-plating¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

During gold-plating there is a considerable advantage in keeping the electrodes moving or the solution stirred.

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Gold plating shone on the section of the mast enclosed within the cabin.

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It is at such a time that one is brought face to face with war without any of its gold plating.

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For these reasons, nickel or gold plating is much to be preferred.

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Specimens of filling are even more rare than those of gold plating.

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