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- noun Alternative spelling of
gold dust .
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Examples
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Daylight hefted it absent-mindedly, and, still absent-mindedly, untied the strings and ran some of the gold-dust out on his palm.
Chapter X 2010
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Every Italian knows exactly where the world's TV cameras will point on 7 December each year, the feast of Milan's patron St Ambrose, but also "La Prima" at La Scala when gold-dust tickets cost – on this night only – €2,400.
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From its open mouth poured a yellow stream of coarse gold-dust and nuggets.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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It was gold -- gold-dust, coarse gold, nuggets, large nuggets.
Chapter X 2010
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Their gold-dust had weighed up something like eight thousand dollars, and they could not but be contented.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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The weighing was finished, and the gold-dust lay on the table in three dark-yellow heaps.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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Twenty cents, thirty cents, fifty cents, sixty cents, were the values of the gold found in the pans, and at nightfall he washed his banner pan, which gave him a dollar's worth of gold-dust from a shovelful of dirt.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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I did not measure her in gold-dust, nor in dogs, and tents, and furs.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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So the gold-scales were brought from the trading post, while Porportuk went away and came back with a man at his heels, on whose shoulders was a weight of gold-dust in moose-hide sacks.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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In his possession was some two hundred dollars in gold-dust, which
Chapter X 2010
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