quiltmaker
nounEtymology From Middle English quilte maker, quyltemaker, quyltemakere; equivalent to quilt + maker.
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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 1998.2007 January 23, Noam Cohen, “In Douglass Tribute, Slave Folklore and Fact Collide”, in New York Times:
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- quiltmaking