stonemason
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of stonemason
Example Sentences
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Zusha grew up on a dirt road in upstate New York and has worked as a stonemason and a chimney sweep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
John Spargo, a self-educated British stonemason who emigrated to New York in 1901, became an unlikely political theorist of the movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
It’s believed that as stonemason membership decreased, the group began accepting “speculative,” or honorary, members to bolster their numbers.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023
It's an old villain: the fraternal order of Freemasons, whose origins go back to stonemason guilds of the 13th century, and which later became a center of Enlightenment thought and leadership in the 18th century.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2023
The butcher, the stonemason, the sheep farmer, and the schoolmarm: it's as though these figures came in a box along with pint-size storefronts and little stone houses.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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