OLD GOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old gold mean? 

• OLD GOLD (noun)
  The noun OLD GOLD has 1 sense:

1. a dark yellow

  Familiarity information: OLD GOLD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD GOLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dark yellow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("old gold" is a kind of...):

yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)

 Context examples 

He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in the centre of the lid.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After some search, it was found in the box, at the bottom of a horse's nose-bag; wherein (besides hay) there was discovered an old gold watch, with chain and seals, which Mr. Barkis had worn on his wedding-day, and which had never been seen before or since; a silver tobacco-stopper, in the form of a leg; an imitation lemon, full of minute cups and saucers, which I have some idea Mr. Barkis must have purchased to present to me when I was a child, and afterwards found himself unable to part with; eighty-seven guineas and a half, in guineas and half-guineas; two hundred and ten pounds, in perfectly clean Bank notes; certain receipts for Bank of England stock; an old horseshoe, a bad shilling, a piece of camphor, and an oyster-shell.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)