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gold-beating

gold-beating is the alternative form of goldbeating.

Meaning of goldbeating

Noun

goldbeating (uncountable)

  1. The manufacture of gold leaf by hammering gold.
    • The art of goldbeating is of great antiquity, being referred to by Homer; and Pliny states that one ounce of gold was extended to 750 leaves, each leaf being four fingers square, which is three times the thickness of the ordinary leaf gold of the present time.1879, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 752

Questions about gold-beating

What is gold-beating the alternative form of?
Gold-beating is the alternative form of goldbeating.

Words near gold-beating in the dictionary

  1. gold-and-silver honeysuckle
  2. gold-bearing
  3. gold-beater
  4. gold-beater's skin
  5. gold-beaters
  6. gold-beating
  7. gold-breasted trumpeter
  8. gold-breasted trumpeters
  9. gold-brick
  10. gold-bricked
  11. gold-bricker

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