I’m not quite sure what you mean. If you took a picture of an orange and sampled a pixel from it, it wouldn’t look like an orange (fruit) any more, but it would look orange (color). Likewise sampling a pixel from a picture of a piece of gold wouldn’t look like gold (metal), but it would still be gold (color).
Right. If you took a picture of a piece of gold and either sampled a point or blurred it together to one color, it wouldn’t look like gold any more.
I’m not quite sure what you mean. If you took a picture of an orange and sampled a pixel from it, it wouldn’t look like an orange (fruit) any more, but it would look orange (color). Likewise sampling a pixel from a picture of a piece of gold wouldn’t look like gold (metal), but it would still be gold (color).
https://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/color/keywords
Gold just looks like a dull yellow out of context.