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If there is a silver lining to Russiagate’s anticlimactic conclusion, it should be to free up some attention for the real fleecing that’s going on

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Georgian treasure

Ancient bling

Nov 13th 2008
From The Economist print edition

A travelling show of Georgian treasures

IT WAS gold, not tanks, that made front-page news in Tbilisi in May 1876. Residents of the hilly area of Vani, in what is now the Republic of Georgia, stepped out after a downpour and found a collection of beautifully crafted, ancient gold jewels lying in the muddy streets. The discovery of these intricately worked bracelets and earrings, head ornaments and necklaces, which had been washed down from tombs and sanctuaries, quickly attracted the interest of archaeologists. On and off, they have been excavating there ever since.

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Now some 140 of the artefacts, many of them recent discoveries, are the focus of a new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, until January 4th. (“From the Land of the Golden Fleece: Tomb Treasures of Ancient Georgia” will then travel to the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.)

Definition

fleece

/fliːs/

verb

gerund or present participle: fleecing

1. 1.

   INFORMAL

   obtain a great deal of money from (someone), typically by overcharging or swindling them.

   "the city's cab drivers are notorious for fixing fares and fleecing tourists"
2. 2.

   LITERARY

   cover as if with a fleece.

   "the sky was half blue, half fleeced with white clouds"

Columbia Encyclopedia: Golden Fleece,

in Greek mythology, the magic fleece of the winged ram that saved Phrixus and Helle, the children of Nephele and Athamas, from the jealousy of Ino, Athamas' second wife. The ram flew to Colchis, but Helle fell into the sea, which was thereafter known as the Hellespont. Phrixus arrived safely, sacrificed the ram, and hung its fleece in a wood guarded by a dragon. The ram became the constellation Aries. Phrixus married a daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis and begot Argus and three other sons. The quest of Jason and the Argonauts was for this fleece.
Wikipedia article "Golden Fleece".


bling bling adjective MAINLY US SLANG
describes jewellery which attracts attention because it is big and expensive, or describes a person who wears this jewellery

bling bling noun [U] MAINLY US SLANG