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Bullion is gold or silver in heavy bars, kept as metal, not made into coins or jewellery. Banks, governments, and some rich buyers store wealth this way, and news stories talk about the gold-bullion price. A bar is stamped with weight and purity; you are buying the metal itself. Though actually, everyday talk sometimes stretches it to any gold held as a store of value, not only the brick-shaped bars. It is a formal, money-and-news word, not a kitchen word.
金條、銀條（金銀條塊）
組成From Middle English bulloin, bullioun, from Anglo-Norman bullion. The deeper origin is unclear; it may come from French bouillon, with the sense stretched to melting metal. Middle Dutch boelioen (“base metal”) seems to come from a different French word, billon, which is not the same as this one.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Bullionname
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A surname.
bullionnoun/ˈbʊl.jən/
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A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
- If the mint kept back one per cent, to pay the expense of coinage, it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined, until the coin was more valuable than the bullion by at least that fraction.
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obsoleteBase or uncurrent coin.
- And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, / And damn for bullion, go for current now.
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obsoleteShowy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
- To beholde how it was garnysshyd and bounde, […] The claspis and bullyons were worth a thousande pounde; […]
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obsoleteA heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
- The hair was plaited with bullion and red riband, and then wound round the head, something after the fashion of a turban, save that it entirely displayed the forehead.
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artscraftsglassblowingThe mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。