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Gold-beater   /goʊld-bˈitər/   Listen
Gold-beater

noun
1.
An artisan who beats gold into gold leaf.  Synonym: goldbeater.






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"Gold-beater" Quotes from Famous Books



... senior members of the company was forthwith held, presided over by the Mem Sahib, "Old Party," and "Syl" Dignam. After a good deal of anxious thought and discussion as to how the disfigurements could be temporarily obliterated some one suggested gold-beater skin, which was finally adopted and proved eminently successful. Not one of the audience ever had the slightest suspicion that his (or her) arms were not as they should have been, and such as any ordinary young lady would not ...
— Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century • Montague Massey



Words linked to "Gold-beater" :   goldbeater, artisan, artificer, craftsman, journeyman



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