glovemaker

plural glovemakers · alternative glove-maker

1. A person who makes gloves; a glover.

   The glovemaker's apprentice had become a great painter, as the picture plainly proved.

   1909, Hans Christian Andersen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Fairy tales, Queen's ed edition, Ward, page 338

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   glovemakers are probably the happiest and most prosperous of all the leather workers in California

   1890, California. Department of Industrial Relations. Division of Labor Statistics and Law Enforcement, Biennial Report, page 25

   A glovemaker makes 50 pairs of gloves: but he is not a Briareus: therefore he does not want 50 pairs of gloves: therefore as in the former case, all the gloves he makes above his own requirements are so much labour thrown away without any

   1872, Henry Dunning Macleod, The Principles of Economical Philosophy, volume 1, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 336