gold-beating
noun
the act, process, or skill of hammering sheets of gold into gold leaf
gold-beater
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a word derived from
gold-beating.
Example Sentences
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Oh, mighty Nature, let others rely on the painter, the gold-beater, the carver of marble, come you and help me adorn the temple of my beloved.
From Foul Play by Charles Reade
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.
From Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century by Montague Massey
He had experienced the common lot of young artists in those days, and had been apprenticed to a gold-beater, but preferred the profession of painter.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick
A gold-beater can cover the effigy of a man on horseback with a sovereign; but he must have the sovereign first.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
A gold-beater from Fürth had created so much excitement that the police had to be called in.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
