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  • noun Plural form of weaver.

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Examples

  • But this heightened interest in weavers was short lived.

    Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001

  • FOTO CAPTION stepped fret design in rug woven by Zapotec weavers from the Oaxacan pueblo of Teotitlan del Valle OTHER FOTOS ON ROLL OF USE IN THE FUTURE Benito _Inez is the old man in the photo: a curandero, a former cowboy and an albanil who still works at building his house/Interview with him next week to go with this photo

    Zapotec weavers unwelcome in Ajijic 2000

  • FOTO CAPTION stepped fret design in rug woven by Zapotec weavers from the Oaxacan pueblo of Teotitlan del Valle OTHER FOTOS ON ROLL OF USE IN THE FUTURE Benito _Inez is the old man in the photo: a curandero, a former cowboy and an albanil who still works at building his house/Interview with him next week to go with this photo

    Zapotec weavers unwelcome in Ajijic 2000

  • They were not to be trusted, because their priorities were always a mystery to mere “norms” such as we “norms” being the occasionally contemptuous term weavers were heard to mutter under their breaths.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • They were not to be trusted, because their priorities were always a mystery to mere “norms” such as we “norms” being the occasionally contemptuous term weavers were heard to mutter under their breaths.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • They were not to be trusted, because their priorities were always a mystery to mere “norms” such as we “norms” being the occasionally contemptuous term weavers were heard to mutter under their breaths.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • We saw earlier that when the dispute at the market occurred, the resident found it simple enough to call the weavers by their játi name (there he used "Sáli"), and that allowed him to apply religiosity to their actions.

    Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001

  • In so far I must agree with Mr. Weinhold, or at least till quite lately I was of his opinion, that the weavers were a patient, humble, easily-led class.

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

  • Most large Egyptian collections contain one or more specimens of wooden combs, which are generally called weavers combs, and ascribed to Roman times.

    Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms 1890

  • The weavers were the most powerful body in this city, and had always been noted for their turbulence and faction; and on a Monday in the month of May, 1345, a great battle took place in the market-place between them and the fullers, of whom 1500 were slain.

    St. George for England 1867

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