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Definition of Tentmaker
1. Noun. Someone who makes or repairs tents.
Definition of Tentmaker
1. n. One whose occupation it is to make tents.
Definition of Tentmaker
1. Noun. A manufacturer of tents. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tentmaker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentmaker
Literary usage of Tentmaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stag Cook Book: Written for Men by Men by Carroll Mac Sheridan (1922)
"Eight years ago, when I was first playing "Omar, the tentmaker," I became acquainted
with various members of the Persian Embassy, who were especially ..."
2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1899)
"OMAR NOT A tentmaker.—The tentmaking ascribed to the singing Omar disturbs the
... The idea that the Persian astronomer royal was a tentmaker, it says. ..."
3. Sabbath evening readings on the New Testament by John Cumming (1858)
"Let us mark the singular and central object here; one that was once a tentmaker,
yet a pupil at the feet of the most accomplished professor of his age, ..."
4. Cromwell's Army: A History of the English Soldier During the Civil Wars, the by Charles Harding Firth (1902)
"tentmaker. It is humbly desired that a tentmaker may bee continued, tor there
are noe men in this country that have any skill in making or mending of tents ..."
5. Typee: Areal Romance of the South Sea by Herman Melville (1892)
"BOTOLPH SOCIETY 53 BEACON STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Omar, tke tentmaker A
ROMANCE OF OLD PERSIA By NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Author of "The Spell of ..."
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