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litster
litster
English
Noun
litster (plural litsters)
- (archaic, Britain, Scotland) A dyer.
- 1995, Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, Yale University Press (1995), ISBN 0300042582, 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 (2002), ISBN 9781862321694, 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, Penguin Canada (2010), ISBN 9780143170082, unnumbered page:
- 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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:litster.
- 1995, Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, Yale University Press (1995), ISBN 0300042582, pages 1-2: