A decorator who covers other materials with a patina of gold.
"The doing of it, not the manner: that must be private. Many things that seem foul i’ the doing do please, done. A lady should indeed study her face when we think she sleeps; nor when the doors are shut should men be enquiring; all is sacred within then. Is it for us to see their perukes put on, their false teeth, their complexion, their eyebrows, their nails? You see, gilders will not worke, but inclos'd. They must not discover, how little serves, with the helpe of art, to adorne a great deale."
Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman (1609).
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