gold-tippedadj.
/ˌɡəʊl(d)ˈtɪpt/, U.S. /ˌɡoʊl(d)ˈtɪpt/ 1. Having a gold tip.
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1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. D 4v He vsed to wound louers after Cupids fashion, with the gold-tipped shafts.
1607 W. Barksted Mirrha sig. A7 Like a hunter to this nimph he came: With gold tipt Iauelin and a bugle Horne.
1642 Prince Robert his Plot 3 The stately towers whose gold-tipt turrets point up to the spheres.
1746 T. Brecknock Poems & Odes 63 Where many a City Dance adorns Her Nacky's Brows with Gold-tipt Horns.
1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners I. xviii. 142 The dames from gold-tipt China sip their tea.
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 793/1 I caught a glimpse of the glistening gold-tipped wands of the two under-sheriffs.
1922 Z. Grey To Last Man xi. 242 She could just see the sunset-flushed, gold-tipped spruces far above her.
1978 Austral. Women's Weekly 30 Aug. 74/2 The scarlet honey myrtle..has bright red brushes with gold-tipped stamens.
2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 26 Aug. 57/1 Dapper in daily tuxedos, sporting an ivory cigarette holder and a gold-tipped cane.
2. spec. Of a cigarette: having a band of gilded paper at one end.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [adjective] > type of cigarette
bird's eye1877
gold-tipped1890
mentholated1895
cork-tipped1907
king-size1909
roll-your-own1911
tailor-made1924
filter-tipped1927
king-sized1940
roll-up1948
filterless1956
tipped1964
untipped1968
unfiltered1976
1890 Leeds Mercury 5 Feb. 7/5 Gold-tipped cigarettes seem just now to be the ‘swagger thing’.
1897 Pick-me-up 18 Sept. 397/1 Now give me a cigarette—one of those nice gold-tipped ones—and don't be nasty and cross.
1951 R. Senhouse tr. Colette Chéri 174 Stub-ends of gold-tipped cigarettes.
1993 D. S. Olson Confessions Aubrey Beardsley (1994) xv. 327 He [sc. Oscar Wilde] went from gold-tipped cigarettes, Trimalchian feasts and champagne to a meagre daily ration of rancid skilly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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