单词 | french-polisher |
释义 | French-polishern. A person who French-polishes (furniture, boats, etc.), esp. professionally. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who smooths, polishes, or flattens polisher1552 rubber1611 flatter1714 flattener1741 French-polisher1825 planisher1858 1825 Times 10 Oct. 1/3 (advt.) Wanted a good French Polisher. 1879 Daily News 7 Apr. 3/1 Their boat..has just been left by the French polisher. 1933 Musical Times 74 689/2 At first..we put the tea things on the pianoforte, but..someone..upset the hot water across its back, and we had hastily to summon a french polisher. 1992 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 18 359 Henry Isaacs..moved out of the docks and was employed as a French polisher and woodworker in later life. 2004 J. Bale Running Cultures v. 123 His mother worked as a French-polisher at a factory making billiard tables. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1825 |
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