quiltmaker

English

Etymology

From Middle English quilte maker, quyltemaker, quyltemakere; equivalent to quilt + maker.

Noun

quiltmaker (plural quiltmakers)

  1. A maker of quilts.
    • 2007 January 23, Noam Cohen, “In Douglass Tribute, Slave Folklore and Fact Collide”, in New York Times:
      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.
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