Definition of "gold"

...You like to hear about gold. A king filled his prison room As full as the room could holdTo the top of his reach on the wall With every known shape of the stuff. 'Twas to buy himself off his doom. […]

2020 May 15, Robert Frost, Delphi Complete Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series)‎, Delphi Classics

Now obviously this meant that I went over my allotted time, but the theatre management didn't mind because I was giving them comedy gold and that's what gets bums on seats.

2010, Paul Hendy, Who Killed Simon Peters?

Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold, and she wasn't worth a light beside him.

2012, Victor Pemberton, Leo's Girl

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.

1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings

Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎

The album went gold, then platinum, thanks to a second hit single, "It's A Miracle".

2000, Billboard, volume 112, number 20, page 52

Scholars who make their work green open access rather than gold never pay a fee to do so. Even when they choose the gold route, only 33% of peer-reviewed open access journals charge author-side fees.

2013 October 21, Peter Suber, “Open access: six myths to put to rest”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, archived from the original on 2023-06-03

I caught sight of something that seemed the nexus of all that glittered, all that golded: like a hallucination in the traffic's rotary heart, a saried creature giddily swirling her own razored rainbow roundabout, mirrored fabric sending light spinning like saberlike amidst the smoking, choking cars.

2010, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused

You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.

2011, Harry Nicholson, Tom Fleck, page 250

Worked wonders, knowing a thing like that. Golded up your hair, even, for all your record said indeterminate. Golded up the whole world, really.

2011, D G Compton, A Usual Lunacy

But I work still, a dead, unheeding man across the endless interface: wishing I was the sun who golds the lake or the lake, comprehending sun.

2011, Robert M. Ellis, “Pokhara Lake”, in North Cape: Selected Poems of a Poet Turned Philosopher, page 21

Hair down to my shoulders; waved and liquid-golded. Eyebrows shaved to a different shape and golded. Handle-bar mustache, waxed to points and golded.

2021, Edward Elmer Smith, The Imperial Stars

The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.

2004 November, “Half-Life 2 goes gold”, in HWM, page 10

He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public.

2011, Jordan Gray, Unearthed, page 6

I had coded guilds into M59 over the weekend, shortly before we were supposed to go gold.

2011, Jessica Mulligan, Bridgette Patrovsky, quoting Damion Schubert, Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide, page 221