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- noun A maker of
gloves ; aglover .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In short, many people believe that the historical William Shakespeare, who was the son of a glovemaker from Stratford-upon-Avon and had a meager education, simply wasn't sophisticated enough to write the plays credited to him.
A Local Life: Irvin Leigh Matus, 69, penniless Shakespeare scholar who lived by his own design 2011
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Her parents were Maurice (or Shimmle), a glovemaker, and Yvonne (or Helene) Pierre.
Anna Held. 2009
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Even a glovemaker has come to take the measure of my hand.
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We have passed the frontier town of Perleberg, and press onward in company with a glovemaker of Berlin, last from
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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My guide into Berlin was a glovemaker, whose acquaintance I had made upon the road, and through whom, curiously enough, I succeeded in discovering my Parisian friend Alcibiade, the first object of my search.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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It was the same with the other merchants and furnishers, makers of corsets, the shoemaker, glovemaker, etc.; not one of whom ever saw the Empress or spoke to her in her private apartments.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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What of your glovemaker Camus, and the house in the Rue des
Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats
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No more have poets as a rule: Shakespeare's father was a glovemaker; Milton's a scrivener; Spenser's a tailor; Keats's paternal ancestor kept a livery stable; and the father of Robert
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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He is a friend alike of the Comte de Cambray and of glovemaker Dumoulin.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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There's Dumoulin, the glovemaker, he knows everything that goes on in Grenoble.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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