Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that deals in furs.
- noun One whose occupation is the dressing, designing, cleaning, or repairing of furs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dealer in or a dresser of furs; one who makes or sells articles of wearing-apparel, etc., made of fur.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in clothing made of
fur . - adjective
comparative form offurry : morefurry
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And they called the furrier that supplied these coats to the vendor, the store, and they were informed that rather typically, a good coat of that sort -- mink coat, that the name and address would be inside the label dealing with theft and matters of -- and they opened it up and there it was.
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Photos: Triangle Fire: Tracing a Tragedy Hulton Archive/Getty Images The building that became the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire was completed in 1901 at 23-29 Washington Place for furrier and real-estate investor Joseph J. Asch .
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Perlman, who is still pretty spry, has been fishing out of Sheepshead Bay ever since 1945, when an aging furrier named Schlotzberg took him out on the water.
Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City Aram Roston 2010
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He also realized that he would need to be softer and furrier in general for the idea to really work.
No, You Don’t Know What I am Thinking Benjamin Matvey 2011
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Perlman, who is still pretty spry, has been fishing out of Sheepshead Bay ever since 1945, when an aging furrier named Schlotzberg took him out on the water.
Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City Aram Roston 2010
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He became a furrier and died in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
A Conversation with David Benioff about The City of Thieves 2010
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Ian Hecht at Marturia. net fires one of the first Terra Insegura reviews into the the blogosphere, and though he has some quibbles (not to be confused with tribbles – although both can multiply rapidly on occasion, tribbles are furrier), in general, he likes it.
LeaderPost preview of Follies, avec moi ewillett 2009
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Perlman, who is still pretty spry, has been fishing out of Sheepshead Bay ever since 1945, when an aging furrier named Schlotzberg took him out on the water.
Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City Aram Roston 2010
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"I think all of Debbie's legs are fabulous," the furrier Dennis Basso popped by to say.
Big Dinner Before Shopping Marshall Heyman 2011
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Perlman, who is still pretty spry, has been fishing out of Sheepshead Bay ever since 1945, when an aging furrier named Schlotzberg took him out on the water.
Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City Aram Roston 2010
bilby commented on the word furrier
'Furrier and furrier,' said Bilby.
September 13, 2008