Gloversville

[ gluhv-erz-vil ]

/ ˈglʌv ərzˌvɪl /

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noun

a city in E New York.

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Gloversville is the principal glove-manufacturing centre in the United States.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2|Various
Gloversville has more than a score of tanneries and leather-finishing factories, and manufactures fur goods.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2|Various
The Gloversville method is much better, however, and has more perfect results.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891|Various
Gloversville and Johnstown were then quiet villages of from three to four thousand people.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891|Various

No one would think to look at it that it had been bought in Gloversville.
Plum Pudding|Christopher Morley