gloveressn.
/ɡlʌvəˈrɛs/, /ˈɡlʌvərᵻs/, U.S. /ˈɡləvərəs/ A female glove-maker.
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gloveress1712
1712 London Gaz. No. 5009/4 Sarah Lewis..a Gloveress by Imployment.
1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iv, in Fraser's Mag. June 728/1 A glovers..lets me have dem.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings I. xviii. 225 Quite a colony of workwomen—gloveresses, as they are termed in the local phraseology.
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