单词 | quickgold |
释义 | > as lemmasquickgold quickgold n. [probably after quicksilver n.] literary liquid gold. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > gold > other types of gold angel gold1526 rux1586 flour-gold1869 quickgold1877 sponge-gold1882 1877 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 66 The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xx. 276 I took two gulps of the whiskey; it ran through me like quickgold. 1984 A. Carter Nights at Circus 111 It [sc. a tiger] came out of the corridor like orange quicksilver, or a rarer liquid metal, a quickgold. < as lemmas |
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