icecream-maker

noun

A machine used to make ice cream.

Meanings

nounicecream-maker (plural icecream-makers)

plural icecream-makers

  1. Alternative form of ice cream maker.
    1. A machine used to make ice cream.

      TOY: ICECREAM-MAKER still in box

      2015 April 28, “Classified”, in Bradenton Herald, volume 93, number 226, page 7C, column 6
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      INSTANT ICECREAM-MAKER / the quick 'n' easy modern way to make delicious old-fashioned real ice-cream at home—in just 15 minutes!

      1977 April 3, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Bombay: […] [F]or […] Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., by S. G. Joshi at The Times of India Press, page 34

      Process in an electric icecream-maker (sorbetière) or pour into a round cake tin and place in freezer.

      1983, Margaret Fulton, Restaurant Dishes of the Sorld, London: Octopus Books Limited, →ISBN, page 33, column 2

      Looked at in succession, they provide a useful rough guide to the general acceptance of such mechanical innovations as the refrigerator or the gas cooker, to say nothing of Mr Spong’s tinned-meat mincer or the Frezo! icecream-maker.

      1992, Christina Hardyment, “Mrs Beeton’s Kitchen”, in Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements in Association with the National Trust, Chicago, Ill.: Academy Chicago Publishers in association with the National Trust, →ISBN, page 125

      ‘What is your life’s work?’ / ‘Me? I’m a demonstrator.’ / ‘Demonstrating what?’ / ‘All sorts of things.’ She shrugged her slender shoulders. ‘Icecream-makers. Carpet-shampooers. I’m promoting a brilliant new microwave just now, at Bainbridges, and . . .’

      1997, Jennifer Curry, Peacocks’ Acre, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 80
    2. A company or person that makes ice cream.

      Occupation. […] Icecream-maker

      1894, South Australia. Statistical Register. 1893. Compiled from Official Records., Adelaide, S.A.: […] C. E. Bristow, […], page 11
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      FIRST-CLASS CAKE-BAKER AND ORNAmenter and icecream-maker wants situation. Address G. PALM, 921 Mission st.

      1895 March 10, The San Francisco Call, volume LXXVII, number 90, San Francisco, Calif., page 8, column 2

      They were followed by northern Italian, mostly Genoese, craftsmen, peddlers, and service tradesmen, such as Francesco Rossi, Toronto’s first confectioner and icecream-maker, and the Canessa brothers, Nicholas and Peter, brush-makers.

      1985, John E. Zucchi, “Italian Hometown Settlements and the Development of an Italian Community in Toronto, 1875-1935”, in Robert F. Harney, editor, Gathering Place: Peoples and Neighbourhoods of Toronto, 1834-1945 (Studies in Ethnic and Immigration History), Toronto, Ont.: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, →ISBN, page 123

      This tea salon was, until August 2007, the main retail outlet for Thomas Dammann, the son of a German icecream-maker, who opened his first shop in the rue du Cardinal Lemoine (now his ‘factory’) in 1987.

      2013, Bill Gillham, Parisians’ Paris, 3rd edition, London: Pallas Athene (Publishers) Ltd, →ISBN, page 189, columns 1–2
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