furnituremaking
furnituremaking noun: the making of furniture, on either a craft or mass production basis; the business includes woodworking and (in some cases) upholstering.
Noun
furnituremaking (uncountable)
- The making of furniture, on either a craft or mass production basis; the business includes woodworking and (in some cases) upholstering.
- Furnituremaking was one of the most universal of colonial enterprises. Not an industry susceptible to supervision from England, it was carried on domestically in small shops by no more than a handful of craftsmen at any one time.1992, Morrison H. Heckscher, Leslie Greene Bowman, American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 133
- By 1810 the federal census recorded a profusion of furnituremaking, leather manufacture, tool- and implement-making, woodenware production, metalworking, hatmaking, clockmaking, brewing, distilling, boot- and shoemaking, and a variety of other occupations in rural areas […]1993, Thomas Max Safley, Leonard N. Rosenband, The Workplace Before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 18
Origin of furnituremaking
From furniture + making.
Questions about furnituremaking
- What does furnituremaking mean?
- Furnituremaking means the making of furniture, on either a craft or mass production basis; the business includes woodworking and (in some cases) upholstering.
- What part of speech is furnituremaking?
- Furnituremaking is a noun.
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