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- noun Plural form of
glover .
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Examples
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Rhodes is working with the region's traditional industries on clothing the giant puppet, consulting potters from Stoke-on-Trent, chain-makers from the Black Country, glass-makers from Stourbridge, and glovers from Worcester, as well as representatives of the new industrial revolution, including design students from the University of Coventry and computer gamers from Leamington Spa.
Zandra Rhodes plans iron corset for Godiva's Olympic ride 2011
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The New York Times reported a glut of white gloves on the market, citing their obscenely cheap prices as a result of glovers overstocking their wares in anticipation of the inauguration.
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Photos: The Content Provider Chrysler Group LLC Part of the Thema program was setting up the glovers to build a swank full-leather interior, including Poltrona Frau-supplied, French-stitched leather on the dash, cluster brow, upper door trim and center console Poltrona Frau also supplies Ferrari and Maserati.
Chrysler's Global Melange Yields True Luxury Dan Neil 2012
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Henry and Catharine were married within four months after the battle of the North Inch, and never did the corporations of the glovers and hammermen trip their sword dance so featly as at the wedding of the boldest burgess and brightest maiden in Perth.
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We glovers could always do something in war, though our connexion with it was less than yours who work in steel and iron.
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Fields,36 the City apprentices and the sailors and dockhands, now idle through lack of trade, joined up with the glovers, tanners, and brewery workers of Bermondsey and Southwark who were on holiday for the
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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The glovers 'snippings were for making size, which, with the eggs, malt and wort were used in place of water for tempering the mortar.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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Payed for glovers pecis, woode & tallowe, abowte the lyme 5 6
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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He _depended_ on his cousin, Colonel Bloomfield, procuring him a commission in his regiment, and cheated tailors, hosiers, glovers, coach-makers, and even lawyers, with impunity.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 Various
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We all knew each other in a few minutes; carpenters, turners, glovers were there, — not a jeweller among them but myself.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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