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n. - An artisan who pounds a precious metal into foil of that precious metal.

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  • It seemed a long time to Naomi that Solomon the goldbeater and Jacob the serving-lad, standing at a little distance from the wall, haggled over the load of grapes.
  • Selling w-scraped oboe reeds made with goldbeater skin or running a dance studio dedicated to a genre from a tiny Pacific island, might seem like losing propositions.
  • The first attempt to create a popular drama was made by Lope de Rueda, a goldbeater of Seville, who flourished between 1544 and 1567, and who became both a dramatic...
  • A large surface with a grain of ore -- like the goldbeater, who, out of a single guinea, will compose a score of books.
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