tentmaker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tentmaker
Example Sentences
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For Dave, being a tentmaker missionary was a way to catch up to Lynne’s international experience, to turn his brief glimpses of other cultures into a stare.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2014
Just after the conference, they started dating, and Dave pitched Lynne the idea of spending their first few years of marriage doing this tentmaker thing.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2014
Someone in the city of Tarsus said, "St Paul's father was a tentmaker here."
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013
Says the bishop: "Ours may largely be a tentmaking ministry, in the sense that St. Paul supported himself as a tentmaker."
From Time Magazine Archive
The argument lieth strongly against the apostles, poor fishermen; and St. Paul, a tentmaker.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan
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