Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
manufacturer ofcigars .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word cigarmaker.
Examples
-
The son of a cigarmaker in Cuba, he grew up in Florida and moved to New York after World War I, where in Harlem he became the king of the numbers racket, a kind of lottery, illegal but lucrative.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
-
The law, said the court, in self-righteous indignation, “interferes with the profitable and free use of his property by the owner or lessee of a tenement-house who is a cigarmaker.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
-
The law, said the court, in self-righteous indignation, “interferes with the profitable and free use of his property by the owner or lessee of a tenement-house who is a cigarmaker.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
-
The law, said the court, in self-righteous indignation, “interferes with the profitable and free use of his property by the owner or lessee of a tenement-house who is a cigarmaker.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
-
Any cigarmaker knows better than I how many it would replace, but I understand that a cigar-making machine would do the work of many cigar-makers.
-
In early youth he became a cigarmaker, then a tobacco dealer, and later a grocer.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
-
I was employed by Charles Mun as a cigarmaker, and early on
The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker
-
Also there was Korwsky, and two other men; Moneta, a young Mexican cigarmaker out of work, and a man named Hamby, who had turned up on the previous evening, introducing himself as a pacifist who had been arrested and beaten up during the war.
They Call Me Carpenter Upton Sinclair 1923
-
Born in London of Dutch-Jewish lineage, on January 27, 1850, the son of a cigarmaker, Samuel Gompers was early apprenticed to that craft.
The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth 1897
-
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.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.