Goldbeater
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Goldbeater is a noun meaning A craftsman who creates gold leaf by hammering gold bars.
Meaning
A craftsman who creates gold leaf by hammering gold bars.
Example Sentences
Zebedee went to the goldbeaters shop, which smelled like lamb because the goldbeater ate a sandwich of lamb every day for lunch.
In my mind's eye, I see Cristiano on the day he first arrived in my father's workshop, the old goldbeater's assistant now grown into a man.
The membrane had been used, perhaps since antiquity, to make gold leaf, which goldbeaters produced by starting out with a small ingot of gold and beating it thinner, then sandwiching the leaves between sheets of cow intestines, ultimately creating a stack of alternating goldbeater's skins and gold leaf that could be more than 100 layers deep.
Word Forms
- goldbeaters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gold-beater, goldworker, silverbeater, goldsmith, goldsmithy, hammerman.
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