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‖ toreutes|tɒˈruːtiːz|
[a. Gr. τορευτής, f. τορεύειν: see next.]
A worker in toreutics; an artist in metal or ivory.
1840tr. C. O. Müller's Hist. Lit. Greece xiii. §15 note, Anacreon's advice to the toreutes, who is to make him a cup. 1847J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §85 note, The designation of toreutes hovers between caelator or enchaser and artist in gold and ivory. Ibid. §173 The work of the toreutes..was especially prized in Etruria. |