"goldbeater" meaning in English

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          "word": "goldbeater's skin"
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          "text": "Zebedee went to the goldbeaters shop, which smelled like lamb because the goldbeater ate a sandwich of lamb every day for lunch.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "A craftsman who creates gold leaf by hammering gold bars."
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