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  • noun Plural form of clothmaker.

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Examples

  • He is the patron of dyers, clothmakers, and swordsmiths.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • He is the patron of dyers, clothmakers, and swordsmiths.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • He is the patron of dyers, clothmakers, and swordsmiths.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • The industry, however, remained in Dinant and Huy, and coppersmiths and merchants met in these places, as clothmakers and merchants met in the Flemish towns.

    Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915

  • But, already in the eleventh century, the "porters" and "emporia" proved a centre of attraction, not only to discontented serfs and would-be merchants, but to skilled artisans, mostly clothmakers in Flanders and metal-workers on the Meuse.

    Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915

  • Many places in Switzerland, Piedmont, France, and Germany have chosen him as celestial patron, as have also the dyers, clothmakers, soldiers, swordsmiths, and others.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The very clothmakers sit meditative at their looms; asking, Who shall be Abbot?

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • The very clothmakers sit meditative at their looms; asking, Who shall be Abbot?

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future: the very clothmakers, old women, all townsfolk speak of it, 'and more than once it is reported in St. Edmundsbury, This one is elected; and then, This one and That other.'

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Such guessing, visioning, dim perscrutation of the momentous future: the very clothmakers, old women, all townsfolk speak of it, 'and more than once it is reported in St. Edmundsbury, This one is elected; and then, This one, and That other.'

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

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