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Cabinetmaker

noun
1.
A woodworker who specializes in making furniture.  Synonym: furniture maker.





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"Cabinetmaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... charwoman, poor creature, four francs a month; for which sum she came every morning to make my bed, clean my shoes, brush my clothes, sweep the room, and make ready my breakfast, before going to her day's work of turning the handle of a machine, at which hard drudgery she earned five-pence. Her husband, a cabinetmaker, made four francs a day at his trade; but as they had three children, it was all that they could do to gain an honest living. Yet I have never met with more sterling honesty than in this man and wife. For five years after I left the quarter, Mere Vaillant used to come on my birthday ...
— Facino Cane • Honore de Balzac
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... years the boxwood blocks on which the drawings were made consisted of a single piece; for, as already explained, Charles Wells of Bouverie Street, at first a cabinetmaker of rare excellence, and later on a boxwood importer, had not then invented the device which revolutionised newspaper illustration—that of making a block in six or more sections which could be taken apart after the drawing had been made (and later on photographed) upon ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
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Words linked to "Cabinetmaker" :   woodworker, furniture maker, Thomas Chippendale, Chippendale, woodman, woodsman


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