goldsmith

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Three years before that date, a goldsmith was at _déjeuner_ with a baker and a shoemaker, and they fell a-talking of the state of trade, of the wars and of the poverty of the people of Paris.

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  1. noun An artisan who fashions objects of gold.
  2. noun A trader or dealer in gold articles.

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  1. from Middle English goldsmith, from Anglo-Saxon goldsmith (= Dutch goudsmid = Old High German goldsmid, goltsmid, Middle High German goltsmit. G. goldschmied (as a proper name also Goldschmidt, etc.) = Icelandic gullsmidhr = Swedish Danish guldsmed), from gold, gold, + smith, smith.
 

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/ˈgoʊldsmɪθ/
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