FOOL'S GOLD • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Fool's gold

... already poked the prows of English ships into the icy straits of Greenland waters, seeking way to {26} China. He had come out with a fleet of fifteen sails and one hundred mariners in 1578 to found colonies, but was led away by the lure of "fool's gold." Loading his vessels with worthless rocks which he believed contained gold enough "to suffice all the gold gluttons of the world," he sailed back to England without leaving the trace of a colony. Francis Drake, the very same year, had for the first time plowed an English furrow ...

— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut

... remembered in a flash the "fool's gold" which had adorned in rich profusion the head of the girl in the lace department ...

— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper