Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A worker in gold.

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  • He told the audience about Aldus, who was the first publisher to start cheap books, who dropped abbreviations and had his type cut by Francia pictor et aurifex, who was said to have taken it from Petrarch's handwriting.

    Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

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