单词 | trousers-maker |
释义 | > as lemmastrousers-maker b. With agent nouns and verbal nouns, forming compounds relating to the manufacture of trousers, in which trousers expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in trousers-finisher, trousers-maker, trousers-making, etc. ΚΠ 1831 Morning Post 28 Sept. S. K. Solomon, Breeches, Trousers Maker, and Tailor. 1859 Sydney Morning Herald 2 Nov. 8/5 Wanted, Waistcoat Makers and Trousers Finishers. 1863 Northampton Mercury 21 Feb. 5/2 A first-rate Artist, of London celebrity, a professed Trousers Designer of unsurpassed ability. 1887 W. Westall Her Two Millions III. ii. 20 She was a trousers finisher. 1906 Daily News 8 Mar. 6 Her work of trousers-making yields her a good deal less than a penny an hour. 1963 Peace Corps Volunteer Oct. 13/1 (caption) ‘Yanqui Mamita’ is what sewing women call Darwin May. A graduate in economics, he had to learn trousers tailoring in order to teach. 2013 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 6 Sept. (Finance section) 1 Five years ago Challenge Overseas, a trousers manufacturer, paid 40 million rupees..to buy the..top floor of a decrepit, four-story factory building. < as lemmas |
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