oroide
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of oroide
1865–70, < French or gold (< Latin aurum ) + -oide -oid
Example Sentences
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It was an oroide watch, marked E.D.; and, a few steps further on, a coppery-looking seal-ring also attracted the finder's grasp.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870 by Various
One word brought on another, they drifted, by easy stages, into draw poker, and before Snowdon left he had won two hundred and eighty dollars and, an oroide watch chain of Storey.
From Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
Do you hold yourself quit of the duty of saying that it is second-best, that it is something mixed with copper or nickel, and of the value of oroide, say?
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
He has presented his only other jewellery—an oroide ring, set with Bristol diamonds—to the Warder who has been most attentive and devoted to him during his stay in gaol.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890 by Various
Curly," answered Tom, with scorn, "what you call your brains is only a oroide imitation of a dollar watch.
From Heart's Desire by Emerson Hough
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