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Meanings of goldsmith in English

Russian
ювелир
Portuguese
ourives
Spanish
orífice
Catalan
orfebre
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Metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals.

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ювелир
Portuguese
ourives
Catalan
orfebre

An artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold.

ourives
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Examples for "goldworker"
Examples for "goldworker"
1
There was a guild of bakers, a guild of goldworkers, and a guild of anything and everything else.
Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
1
The daughter of Arutin, the gold-worker, and the wife of Saak, the tile-maker, said to me: There is an excellent physician called Hripsime.
Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore and Cla...
2
The stability of the Rajah's government was seriously threatened in 1857 by the insurrection of Chinese gold-workers at Bau in Sarawak proper.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
Portuguese
ourives
Catalan
oliver goldsmith
Spanish
oliver goldsmith

Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774)

ourives
Usage of goldsmith in English
1
If another goldsmith were needed, she would know how to question him.
Quest for honour
2
The goldsmith closed the shutters of his shop and bolted the door.
Tell Me Another Story: The Book of Story Programs
3
Beyond the Tyrian booth, a goldsmith is busily employed in his shop.
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
4
And next, the goldsmith warned me that the armed men waited outside.
King Olaf's Kinsman / A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against...
5
It means all refuse of the precious metals left in goldsmith's trays.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
6
The goldsmith ran after the cow, which recked little of their loves.
The Sea-Witch; Or, The African Quadroon: A Story of the Slave Co...
7
You mean the notorious goldsmith who lived in Paris 200 years ago?
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study
8
William has not worked as a goldsmith since he was a boy.
The system of the world
9
Benvenuto Cellini, born in 1500, was noted as goldsmith, sculptor, and writer.
Selections from Five English Poets
10
The frontage of a goldsmith's shop has no great variety of articles.
Across Coveted Lands; or, a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to C...
11
I drew a design for a lady's forehead band for the goldsmith.
Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
12
Gloriani's statues were florid and meretricious; they looked like magnified goldsmith's work.
Roderick Hudson
13
Another of Michelangelo's buffoon friends was a Florentine celebrity, Piloto, the goldsmith.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
14
He will have us up before the Council, laughed the goldsmith's 'prentice.
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
15
Did your exciting hunt drive any one out of the goldsmith's shop?
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 03
16
Then said the goldsmith to the prince, 'Whence hadst thou these rubies?'
Tales from the Arabic — Volume 01
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