angelmaker

English

Noun

angelmaker (plural angelmakers)

1. Alternative form of angel maker.
   • 1867 October 1, “Polygamy and Monogamy in Turkey”, in The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 32, London: Trübner & Co., page 343:

     Abortion and infanticide, therefore, take place only among married women; and there seems reason to believe that, so far as they exist, they are caused by the like considerations as in Europe. It is notorious how children are kept down in France, what angelmakers labour in Prussia, and how systematically they are destroyed among our working population.