goldbeating

English

Etymology

gold +‎ beating

Noun

goldbeating (uncountable)

1. The manufacture of gold leaf by hammering gold.
   • 1879, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 752:

     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.

   • 2017, Laura Morelli, The Painter's Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice, →ISBN:

     My father engaged two young guild apprentices from our neighbor's larger workshop to help transport the wooden stump, hammers, and other supplies from the goldbeating studio.

   • 2017, Thomas Carr, Plainview-Old Bethpage, →ISBN, page 44:

     The popular late-19th-century trend of using gold leaf for decorating brought the goldbeating industry to the area.

See also

• goldbeater