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- noun Plural form of
cigarmaker .
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Examples
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The cigarmakers were the first to recognize his claims to immortality and to confer it on him; but now almost every conceivable sort of merchandise except corsets is being trade marked Hindenburg.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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A cigar manufacturer complained in 1877 that his employees spent more time slacking than working: The difficulty with many cigarmakers is this.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Andres Diaz closed in 1925, and the building later housed other cigarmakers and a rubber ball manufacturer.
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The cigarmakers opposed the introduction of such a machine.
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It was useless, to begin with, for what could such a legion of tailors and cigarmakers and weavers do against the Prussian army?
The Marx He Knew John Spargo 1921
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He took out dinners to the cigarmakers in a factory nearby.
Documenting the American South: the Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1909
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The bitter cry of the virtually enslaved tenement cigarmakers had reached Albany, and Roosevelt went to their rescue at once.
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The cigarmakers of Key West, Tampa, Jacksonville, New York and other cities where large Cuban colonies have congregated, have proven their patriotism and their adherence to the cause by giving more generously of their earnings than has ever been done before by the people of any country struggling for freedom.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904
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The men and women are all cigarmakers, and, as our commissary is not yet open, we have to make native cigars.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904
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His investigations as an assemblyman into the cigarmakers tenement-house conditions, and, later, as a member of the Board of Health, had put him in possession of the facts.
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