Definition of Cloakmaker

1. Noun. Someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments.

Exact synonyms: Furrier
Generic synonyms: Garment Worker, Garment-worker, Garmentmaker

Definition of Cloakmaker

1. Noun. someone who makes cloaks ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloakmaker

cloacal theory
cloacas
cloacin
cloacitis
cloak
cloak-and-dagger
cloaked
cloakedly
cloaking
cloaking device
cloaking devices
cloakings
cloakless
cloaklike
cloakmaker (current term)
cloakmakers
cloakroom
cloakrooms
cloaks
cloam
cloams
cloath
cloaths
clobazam
clobber
clobbered
clobbering
clobbers
clobenpropit

Literary usage of Cloakmaker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a (1895)
"... shows the Chicago cloakmaker a bankrupt to the extent of $114.42, while the shortage in the case of the New York cloakmaker is ..."

2. Annual Report by Illinois Dept. of Factory Inspection (1896)
"... 322 S. Halsted St., fur cloakmaker. Charge, employing boy under 16 years of age without affidavit. Before Justice Kersten. Paid fine, $3 and costs. 156. ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"I even gave her the clothes which the robbers in common decency had left me, and the little earnings I made there by working as cloakmaker so long as I was ..."

4. Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-workers, Their Trades and Their Lives by Helen Campbell (1887)
"Here, as in other places, the cloakmaker was earning from sixty to seventy cents a day, but even this was comfort and profusion compared with the facts that ..."

5. The Clothing Industry in New York by Jesse Eliphalet Pope (1905)
"The skilled cloakmaker, who makes the entire garment for the high grade ready-made cloak trade is some what better off than the ladies' tailor since he is ..."

6. The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry by Jacob M. Budish, George Henry Soule (1920)
"... made an attempt in August, 1905, to issue a weekly, The cloakmaker. It lived only a few months. It was revived in September, 1910, under the name of Die ..."

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