tentmaker
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈtɛntˌmeɪkər/
:
fabricante de tiendas
- I'm a tentmaker.
Examples
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They were tentmakers, we read, like Paul.
Blog text (13) -
The tentmaker rubbed dirt in the face of the priest... - ...and the crowd loved it.
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God is on my side, tentmaker!
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The priest wins the match, but the tentmaker wins the hearts of the crowd.
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And it's Saul, the tentmaker!
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Buys her clothes from Omar the Tentmaker.
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He's a tentmaker, too.
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I once knew an actor who said, of people who dressed badly, that they'd been outfitted by Omar the Tentmaker; in Franzick's case, Omar could have provided a perfect, form-fitting jumper right off the rack.
Fiction book (1999) -
The tentmaker carefully stitched the canvas to create a strong shelter for the festival.
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After the storm damaged their tents, the tentmaker quickly arrived to make the necessary repairs.
Synonyms
170
9.1
A person who makes and fixes things like ships or wheels
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tentmaker is simply tent + maker, meaning a person who makes or repairs tents. The 'tent' part comes from an old word meaning 'to stretch', which you can remember from the common word tension, because a tent is cloth stretched over poles, so a tentmaker makes and fixes those stretched shelters.