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Solid gold

Made entirely of a gold alloy (of any specified fineness), not of a base metal mechanically coated with gold, e.g. gold filled or rolled gold.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson