horologer
- a variation of horologist.
Example Sentences
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As a final flourish, he put a mechanical clock on the top floor, which he had brought from Parisian horologer.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2016
A French horologer moved to Switzerland, carrying his trade with him, and as a result there soon grew up in Geneva a guild of workmen not to be outranked.
From Christopher and the Clockmakers by Stecher, William F. (William Frederick)
The Doctor referred him to Mr. George Graham, the distinguished horologer, inventor of the dead-beat escapement and the mercurial pendulum.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel
She may do very well for skippers' wives, chandlers' daughters, and such like; but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret, the daughter of his most Sacred Majesty's horologer, excepting and saving myself.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir
It was probably some sarcastic Italian, and, perhaps, horologer, who, to describe the disagreement of persons, proverbed our nation—“They agree like the clocks of London!”
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
