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bullion.

A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbʊl.jən/
  1. A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.

    countable · uncountable
  2. Base or uncurrent coin.

    countable · obsolete · uncountable
  3. Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.

    countable · obsolete · uncountable
  4. A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

    countable · obsolete · uncountable
  5. The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English bulloin, bullioun, from Anglo-Norman bullion, of obscure origin, perhaps from French bouillon, extending the sense to that of ‘melting’. Middle Dutch boelioen (“base metal”) seems to have come from the unrelated French billon.

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