gold dust

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gold dust

noun gold-dust

  1. uncountable Gold in the form of very small pieces, or flour gold.
  2. figuratively, uncountable Anything of great value. The wine list harbours some great bottles, mature clarets and Burgundies as well as a clutch of fine Germans (gold-dust these days in restaurants) […]
  3. uncountable A basket of gold plant (Aurinia saxatilis).

    Similar: gold basket, golden-tuft alyssum, golden-tuft madwort, rock madwort

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noun Gold in the form of very small pieces

日本語砂金 sakin
中文砂金 shājīn
DeutschGoldstaub
Ελληνικάχρυσόσκονη chrysóskoni

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@misc{gold_dust_2026,
  title = {gold dust},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gold%20dust},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}