tentmaker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tentmaker
Example Sentences
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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
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
Someone in the city of Tarsus said, "St Paul's father was a tentmaker here."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2013
True to the Jewish tradition that a rabbi must have a trade so that he will never have to ac cept money for teaching the law of God, Saul was a tentmaker.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then he was a tentmaker who understood Greek and who could speak to the Greeks in their own language.
From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Maurice Francis Egan
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