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ˈcabinet-ˌmaker
1. One whose business it is to make cabinets (sense 5), and the finer kind of joiner's work.
1681Trial S. Colledge 59 Mr. Att. Gen. What Trade are you? Mr. Hickman. A Cabinet-maker. 1689Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 614 One Johnson, a popish cabinet maker. 1727Swift Gulliver ii. iii. The queen commanded her own cabinet-maker to contrive a box. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 43 Joiners' and cabinet-makers' work.
2. casual. One who constructs a political cabinet.
1884Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Nov. 2/4 The Cabinet-makers, office-seekers, and schemers who abound in Washington.
Hence ˈcabinet ˌmaking, the cabinet-maker's occupation; the construction of a political cabinet.
1813in Examiner 1 Feb. 71/2 They'll fit you..whatever your trade is; (Except it be Cabinet-making). 1882Besant All Sorts 116 The gentle craft of cabinet-making. 1885Pall Mall G. 16 June 1/2 Hitches are inevitable whenever Cabinet-making is undertaken. |