Definitions

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  • noun someone who makes or repairs articles of silver

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Examples

  • The shops are, indeed, not worthy of a close attention, and Netty was passing them indifferently enough when suddenly she became absorbed in the wares of a silver-worker.

    The Vultures Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • Then the armorer, or cup and casket maker, added to this kind of decoration that of flat inlaid enamel; and the silver-worker, finding that the raised filigree (still a staple at Genoa) only attracted tarnish, or got crushed, early sought to decorate a surface which would bear external friction, with labyrinths of safe incision.

    Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859

  • Our landlady was the widow of a silver-worker, and lived by the sale of filigree ornaments, cheap jewellery, combs, fans, and toys in ivory and jet.

    Mugby Junction Charles Dickens 1841

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