Chapter Golden Ball to Golden Town of G by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Golden Slipper (The), in Negro melodies, like "golden streets," etc., symbolises the joys of the land of the leal; and to wear the golden slipper means to enter into the joys of Paradise.
   The golden shoes or slippers of Paradise, according to Scandinavian mythology, enable the wearer to walk on air or water.

Golden State California; so called from its gold "diggins."

Golden Stream Joannes Damascenus, author of Dogmatic Theology (died 756).

Golden Thigh Pythagoras is said to have had a golden thigh, which he showed to Abaris, the Hyperborean priest, and exhibited in the Olympic games. Pelops, we are told, had an ivory shoulder. Nuad had a silver hand (see Silver Hand), but this was artificial.

Golden Tooth A Silesian child, in 1593, we are told, in his second set of teeth, cut "one great tooth of pure gold;" but Libavius, chemist of Coburg, recommended that the tooth should be seen by a goldsmith; and the goldsmith pronounced it to be "an ordinary tooth cleverly covered with gold leaf."

Golden Town (The). So Mainz or Mayence was called in Carlovingian times.