goldhoard

English

Alternative forms

• gold-hoard

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.