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shirtmaker

[ shurt-mey-ker ]

/ ˈʃɜrtˌmeɪ kər /

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noun

a person who makes shirts.

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Origin of shirtmaker

First recorded in 1855–60; shirt + maker

OTHER WORDS FROM shirtmaker

shirtmaking, noun

Words nearby shirtmaker

shirt-dress, shirt front, shirting, shirt jacket, shirt-lifter, shirtmaker, shirt-sleeve, shirt-stud abscess, shirttail, shirtwaist, shirtwaister

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Example sentences from the Web for shirtmaker

How could they work together, seeing that she is a shirtmaker and he a cloakmaker.
Yekl|Abraham Cahan
The sewing-girl, like Hood's shirtmaker, scarcely fears the 'phantom of grisly bone.'
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875.|Various
"It's the tailor, the bootmaker and the shirtmaker," said Dearborn.
Fairfax and His Pride|Marie Van Vorst
The immense shirt seen in the illustration below was constructed for a shirtmaker at Sioux City, Iowa.
The Strand Magazine, Volume XVII, February 1899, No. 98.|Various

There was always something or other to order at his tailor's or his shirtmaker's.
War-time Silhouettes|Stephen Hudson

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