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glovemaker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡlʌvˌmeɪkɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈɡlʌvˌmeɪkə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From glove + maker.

Meanings

1. A person who makes gloves; a glover.
   • glovemakers are probably the happiest and most prosperous of all the leather workers in California 1890, California. Department of Industrial Relations. Division of Labor Statistics and Law Enforcement, Biennial Report, page 25:
   • The glovemaker's apprentice had become a great painter, as the picture plainly proved. 1909, Hans Christian Andersen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Fairy tales, Queen's ed edition, Ward, page 338:
   • A glovemaker makes 50 pairs of gloves: but he is not a Briareus: therefore he does not want 50 pairs of gloves: therefore as in the former case, all the gloves he makes above his own requirements are so much labour thrown away without any 1872, Henry Dunning Macleod, The Principles of Economical Philosophy, volume 1, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 336:

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