goldbeater's skin

goldbeater's skin
/gohld"bee'teuhrz/
the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
[1700-10; GOLD + BEATER + 'S1]

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