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cigarmaker en · NOUN

Etymology

From cigar + maker.

Meanings

1. A manufacturer of cigars: a company that makes them; a skilled worker, employed therein, who rolls them.
   • Often the wife is the original cigarmaker from the old home, the husband having adopted her trade here as a matter of necessity, because, knowing no word of English, he could get no other work. 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 138:
   • Charles Goldstein, a cigarmaker, built Webster Hall in 1886 for $75,000, with a design by Charles Rentz Jr., an architect and beer vendor, for “balls, receptions, Hebrew weddings and sociables,” according to a December 1886 article in The New York Times. 2009 March 8, C.J. Hughes, “Adding Bands to the Beat”, in New York Times:

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