[a. Gr. τορευτής, f. τορεύειν: see next.] A worker in toreutics; an artist in metal or ivory.
1840. trans. C. O. Müller’s Hist. Lit. Greece, xiii. § 15, note. Anacreon’s advice to the toreutes, who is to make him a cup.
1847. Leitch, trans. 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.
