Lexicographical Neighbors of Capmakers
Literary usage of Capmakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1912)
"... there were then eleven capmakers where only one could make a living.
Merchants fared like the artisans. They, too, could buy the right of residence ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... the inventory of the capmakers of Coventry for 1597 shows that, as in preceding
years, the guild still preserved faithfully the jaws of hell, ..."
3. The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earners by Samuel Peter Orth (1921)
"... plain and coarse sewing, shirt makers, book-folders and stickers, capmakers,
straw-workers, dressmakers, crimpers, fringe and lacemakers," and other ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"... grocers 31, wine-merchants 26, tunnelers 3, tavern-keepers and cooks 24,
jewellers 13, tailors and shoemakers 17, capmakers and hosiers 5, hatters 5, ..."
5. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1901)
"... to work so hard for their money as, for example, the capmakers and bookbinders,
who, in the majority of cases, belong to a much higher social grade. ..."
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