Quiltmaker
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A maker of quilts.
"It was based on the recollections of Ozella McDaniel Williams, a teacher in Los Angeles who became a quiltmaker in Charleston, S.C. Ozella’s code,” the book says, was handed down from slave times from mother to daughter. C. Ms. Williams died in 1998."
Example
More examples"It was based on the recollections of Ozella McDaniel Williams, a teacher in Los Angeles who became a quiltmaker in Charleston, S.C. Ozella’s code,” the book says, was handed down from slave times from mother to daughter. C. Ms. Williams died in 1998."
Etymology
From Middle English quilte maker, quyltemaker, quyltemakere; equivalent to quilt + maker.
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