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n. - Someone who creates or repairs canvas shelters.

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Usage examples (36)
  • I hear that Omar the tentmaker is fashioning their suits these days.
  • The wise tentmaker is training for years and years in their home setting before they go abroad.
  • In the literature on the subject, a tentmaker is typically defined as someone who finds placement in a restricted-access foreign culture as a secular worker with the...
  • However, although a tentmaker might be a part of a business, the business itself might not be an integral part of the ministry as it is with business as mission.
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