Meanings
nounwirebender (plural wirebenders)
plural wirebenders
- Trinidad and TobagoAn artisan responsible for shaping the wire structures upon which carnival costumes are created.
Benches and tables are set up for the workers headed by professional assistants like the wirebenders on whose expertise so much of the finery of Carnival costumes depend.
1992, Adrian Curtis Bird, Trinidad sweet: the people, their culture, their island, page 41
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