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单词 tentmaker
释义

tentmaker

[ tent-mey-ker ]
/ ˈtɛntˌmeɪ kər /

noun

a person who makes tents.

Origin of tentmaker

First recorded in 1555–65; tent1 + maker

Words nearby tentmaker

Tenth Amendment, Tenth Commandment, tenth cranial nerve, tenthly, tentie, tentmaker, tent meeting, tentorial, tentorial sinus, tentorium, tentorium cerebelli
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Example sentences from the Web for tentmaker

  • And then he was a tentmaker who understood Greek and who could speak to the Greeks in their own language.

    Confessions of a Book-Lover|Maurice Francis Egan
  • How untrue, after all, was the nebulous philosophy of Omar, the Tentmaker.

    The Wings of the Morning|Louis Tracy
  • Then he went to Corinth, where he stayed for some time preaching and working at his trade of tentmaker.

    The Bible Story|Rev. Newton Marshall Hall
  • He persecutes the Christians with great vigor, a sport which he combines with the business of a tentmaker.

    Preface to Androcles and the Lion|George Bernard Shaw
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