gold-beater

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gold-beater - an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf

goldbeater

artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

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It was a beautiful, bounteous, blue day; the spangled sea calm and cool, and flatly stretching away, all round, to the horizon, like gold-beater's skin hammered out to the extremest.

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Bell had used a disc of fragile gold-beaters' skin with a patch of sheet-iron glued to the centre.

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Twelve figurines made in gold-beater's skin, a few centimeters tall, wonderfully painted and modeled, evoking a band of sinister prowlers on a corner of the table, were deposited by Lucius on the rep, whose square platform allowed the warm air to pass through an infinite number of small and narrow holes.