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gold-beating

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noun

the act, process, or skill of hammering sheets of gold into gold leaf

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gold-beater

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In the city are canneries of vegetables and fruit, glass-works and a gold-beating establishment.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

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