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  • noun One who makes pens for writing.

Etymologies

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pen +‎ maker

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Examples

  • Hammer was heavily influenced by her father, a penmaker who moved here as a child from Russia.

    NBC Universal's Bonnie Hammer plans to build on cable 2009

  • Joe Stirt says: "Swiss luxury penmaker Montblanc has just come out with a $23,000 pen to commemorate the austere, asceticleader of Indian independence's birth on this date (October 2) in 1869."

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Abroad, Montblanc, the Swiss penmaker, with its eye on the potential buyers in India, commemorated Mahatma Gandhi with a $23,000 pen engraved with the ascetic's image.

    A Clunker of a Year 2009

  • Before this goose-quill pens had been exclusively used, and there was in each House of Congress and in each Department a penmaker, who knew what degree of flexibility and breadth of point each writer desired.

    Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

  • German luxury penmaker Montblanc International GMBH launched a limited-edition commemorative fountain pen in honor of Gandhi this week, just in time for the 140th anniversary of the birth of the Mahatma - or "Great Soul" - on Friday.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2009

  • German luxury penmaker Montblanc International GMBH launched the

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2009

  • 24-Hour play project is backed by German luxury penmaker Montblanc, which has helped fund the project for the past four years.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • 24-Hour play project is backed by German luxury penmaker Montblanc, which has helped fund the project for the past four years.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • 24-Hour play project is backed by German luxury penmaker Montblanc, which has helped fund the project for the past four years.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

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