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old gold

noun

  1. a color ranging in hue from medium yellow to light olive brown.


old gold

noun

    1. a dark yellow colour, sometimes with a brownish tinge
    2. ( as adjective )

      an old-gold carpet

“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of old gold1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

Don Draper inquires of a black busboy why he chooses to smoke Old Gold cigarettes.

It consisted in a couple of snakes in old gold clenching an enormous topaz between their heads.

Such a sight had not been seen in that town since it was planted in the mountains in the old gold days.

Jerry, who had gone on with Helen, was wearing a stunning gown of old gold satin with deeper gold embroideries.

The velvet was further beautified by a two inch appliqu of silk violets on an old gold background.

It had eaten and drunk nothing, but had pulled the tree up by the roots, and laid bare a jar full of old gold coins.

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