goldhoard

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English goldhord, golde hord, gold hord, golthord (“treasure”), from Old English goldhord (“treasure; treasury”), equivalent to gold +‎ hoard.

Noun

goldhoard (plural goldhoards)

  1. (previously solely historical) Treasure; a treasury.
    • 1861, Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, Theodore C. Wilks, Charles Lockhart, A General History of Hampshire:
      In the Chronicle it is distinctly stated that the Roman soldiers did before leaving Britain in 418 bury goldhoards (treasures) in the earth.
    • 2012, Mark Atherton, There and Back Again:
      The king is highly pleased now, but even more mistrustful, and will not release the other half of the goldhoard.
    • 2013, Mike Ashley, A Brief History of King Arthur:
      The Romans gathered all the gold-hoards there were in Britain; some they hid in the earth, so that no man might find them, and some they took with them to Gaul.
    • 2013, Brendan Brown, The Flight of International Capital, page 1937:
      US investors continued to liquidate their goldhoards in London and repatriate the proceeds.
    • 2014, John Field, A History of English Field Names:
      There may be recorded or potential archaeological associations with many of the names seen in earlier chapters, referring, e.g., to windmills, dovecotes, early pits and quarries, chapels, gold-hoards, and mounds.
    • 2014, Norman John Greville Pounds, An Economic History of Medieval Europe:
      The goldhoards were possibly sufficient, especially when supplemented by the import from Africa, to support a gold currency.
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