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Definition of Cloakmaker
1. Noun. Someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments.
Definition of Cloakmaker
1. Noun. someone who makes cloaks ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloakmaker
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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