Usually means: Thin layer of gold applied.
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  1. gold-plate, gold plate: Merriam-Webster
  2. gold plate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gold-plate, gold-plate, gold plate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gold-plate, gold plate: Vocabulary.com
  5. gold plate: Wordnik
  6. gold-plate, gold plate: Wiktionary
  7. gold-plate, gold plate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. gold plate: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Gold plate, gold-plate, gold plate: Dictionary.com
  10. Gold plate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. gold-plate, gold plate: Rhymezone
  12. gold-plate, gold plate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. gold-plate, gold plate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. gold-plate, gold plate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gold-plate, gold plate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gold plate)

noun:  A thin layer of gold applied to the surface of an object, often by an electrolytic method.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gold, plate.
verb:  To apply gold plate to an object, to plate with gold.
verb:  (of projects) To incorporate costly or otherwise excessive features or refinements unnecessarily, to overengineer.
verb:  (of laws, regulations, etc) To embellish, to extend beyond its intended scope, especially so as to become stifling, or rigid and inflexible.

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