Definitions
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- noun A person who makes
cloth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Jews were granted freedom of movement in Bavaria in 1861, his father, a former clothmaker, moved his dry-goods business to the large town of Bamberg.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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In a small store outside a nearby cloth museum, another clothmaker selling wares made by her and her mother.
Hungary Photos 5 2008
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In a small store outside a nearby cloth museum, another clothmaker selling wares made by her and her mother.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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An early Zane migrated to England in the sixteenth century and from him descended Robert Zane, a clothmaker, who in turn immigrated to the American colonies, settling in New Jersey.
Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997
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Born in London in 1552, the son of a clothmaker, Spenser past from the newly established M.rchant Taylors 'school to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, as a sizar, or poor student, and during the customary seven years of residence took the degrees of B.A. and, in 1576, of M. A.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Thereafter, when I was thirteen years old, I was bound an apprentice to a clothmaker in a town called Holdbeck, near Leeds.
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