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golden chain

British  

noun

  1. another name for laburnum

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He wears a diamond earring, a dollar-bill ring and, around his neck, a gigantic golden chain.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

A gossamer golden chain holds the little squirrel, as Copley too felt himself bound — shackled, he said in his letters — to a little life in a frozen region.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2018

What possibly could be the point of the golden chain?

From Time Magazine Archive

It is to rivet with a golden chain not only the undeveloped but also the highly developed countries .

From Time Magazine Archive

Shrewd he was, this fellow who came round my father’s hall, showing a golden chain all strung with amber, a necklace.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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