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gold-beating
noun
- the act, process, or skill of hammering sheets of gold into gold leaf
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Derived Forms
- ˈgold-ˌbeater, noun
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Example Sentences
Four principal operations constitute the art of gold beating.
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I shall now describe some peculiarities of the French practice of gold beating.
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In the city are canneries of vegetables and fruit, glass-works and a gold-beating establishment.
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Even in the tombs at Beni-Hassan we find the process of gold-beating illustrated in full.
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The ancient Romans were not ignorant of the process of gold-beating, although they did not carry it so far as we do.
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