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noun, masculine/feminine

orfèvre

/ɔʁ.fɛvʁ/

noun, masculine/feminine/ɔʁ.fɛvʁ/plural: orfèvres

goldsmith, silversmith, smith who works with any precious metal

Related: orfèvre en la matière

Inherited from Old French, from or (“gold”) + fèvre, from Latin faber, as a replacement for Latin aurifex, which was preserved in some other Romance languages.