goldbeater

English

Etymology

From Middle English goldbeter, equivalent to gold +‎ beater.

Noun

goldbeater (plural goldbeaters)

A craftsman who creates gold leaf by hammering gold bars.
- 2004, Paul Fattaruso, Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf, →ISBN, page 26:
  Zebedee went to the goldbeaters shop, which smelled like lamb because the goldbeater ate a sandwich of lamb every day for lunch.
- 2015, Ed Regis, Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology, →ISBN:
  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.
- 2017, Laura Morelli, The Painter's Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice, →ISBN:
  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.

Derived terms

goldbeater's skin

单词	goldbeater
释义	goldbeater English Etymology From Middle English goldbeter, equivalent to gold +‎ beater. Noun goldbeater (plural goldbeaters) A craftsman who creates gold leaf by hammering gold bars. 2004, Paul Fattaruso, Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf, →ISBN, page 26: Zebedee went to the goldbeaters shop, which smelled like lamb because the goldbeater ate a sandwich of lamb every day for lunch. 2015, Ed Regis, Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology, →ISBN: 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. 2017, Laura Morelli, The Painter's Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice, →ISBN: 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. Derived terms goldbeater's skin
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