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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cabinet-maker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Does this mean that we are looking at an item produced by a cabinet-maker who was also able to furnish funerals?
▪ Yet whilst certain cabinet-makers and upholsterers occasionally furnished funerals there is no evidence to show that iron founders did likewise.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cabinet-maker

1680s, from cabinet + maker.

Usage examples of "cabinet-maker".

But among the crowd of friends and admirers who, coming from all parts, pressed around the little pink house, the most amazed of all was Marius, the blind cabinet-maker, unable to contain his intense delight at the sudden burning of so much incense before his idol, for to him it had seemed that this day of apotheosis would never dawn!

The long central table and all the twenty chairs around it were of stinkwood, one of the most beautifully grained timbers of Africa, lovingly carved by the skilled Malay slave cabinet-makers.

Europe being so distant, and the cost of freight to them so enormous, very few are sent there, except, perhaps, ebony and molave, although several beautiful descriptions of wood are employed by the cabinet-makers of the country and those of China, some of which are of superior beauty to anything I have ever seen at home when made up into furniture.

Curly shuffled to the end of the bar, coughed hollowly, and told Schwegel that he was a Detroit cabinet-maker out of a job.

The twiglike and wispy mustache twitched as the cabinet-maker turned to Cerryl.

Trade guilds and corporations bear the following titles, drawn up in 1789, from the files of complaints: apothecaries, jewelers and watch-makers, booksellers and printers, master-barbers, grocers, wax and candle-makers, bakers and tailors, master shoemakers, eating house-keepers, inn-keepers and hatters, master-masons and plasterers in lime and cement, master-joiners, coopers and cabinet-makers, master-cutlers, armorers, and polishers.

How many coachmakers, saddlers, cabinet-makers, and professors of other useful arts, had deserted their fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, and, most of all, their cousins, for the love of her!

Just over the gutter a badly-written notice board announced that George Maclean was a carpenter and cabinet-maker.

It is also called Scouring Rush, and by old writers Shavegrass, and was formerly much used by white smiths and cabinet-makers.