litster

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English litestere, from liten (to dye) (from Old Norse litr) + -stere (see -ster).[1]

Noun

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litster (plural litsters)

  1. (archaic, UK, Scotland) A dyer.
    • 1995, Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 1–2:
      But it was the woolen industry that provided the elder Smibert with a livelihood, for as a litster he spent his days dyeing wool, which was then woven into cloth.
    • 2002, Margaret H. B. Sanderson, A Kindly Place?: Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland, Tuckwell Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 122:
      Other women ran businesses that required reliance on a network of suppliers, sometimes of raw materials. Isobel Provand in the Canongate was a litster.
    • 2008, Shona Maclean, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton[1], Penguin Canada, published 2010, →ISBN:
      The smell of the tanners' and the litsters' work still hung in the night air, although they had long since gone to their weary beds.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:litster.

References

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  1. ^ "litster" on merriam-webster.com

Anagrams

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