metasis
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During the scene in which Wagner’s enslaved metalsmiths toil at their anvils — mere stage props — a team of percussionists, concealed offstage, hammers away on the tubing.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2015
Works by nine metalsmiths and nine published authors.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2014
In its rustic gabled buildings, resident woodworkers, weavers, potters and metalsmiths made wares to sell.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2012
Epperson took it to the shop, but none of the other metalsmiths could tell him what it was.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He sent to far kingdoms for woodsmen, carpenters, metalsmiths, goldsmiths—also carters, victualed, clothiers to attend to the workmen—and for weeks their uproar filled the days and nights.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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