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cabinetmaker

American  
[kab-uh-nit-mey-ker] / ˈkæb ə nɪtˌmeɪ kər /

noun

  1. a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.


Etymology

Origin of cabinetmaker

First recorded in 1675–85; cabinet + maker

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The scandal saw one of France's leading antiques experts, Georges "Bill" Pallot, and award-winning cabinetmaker, Bruno Desnoues, put on trial on charges of fraud and money laundering following a nine-year investigation.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2025

Mr. Williams was a 36-year-old Vietnam War veteran and cabinetmaker in 1984 when Army officials announced that nerve agent would be burned at the Blue Grass depot.

From New York Times Jul. 6, 2023

Now apprenticed to a cabinetmaker, she touches wood only to craft it into useful items — “Objects as objects. Nothing more.”

From Washington Post Sep. 27, 2022

Bureau of Land Management employee Theresa Livingston, of Worland, and retired cabinetmaker and perennial candidate Rex Wilde, of Cheyenne, seek the Democratic nomination for governor.

From Washington Times Aug. 16, 2022

One such cabinetmaker boasted he’d make “two or twenty more if I can be paid for it.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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