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Included are 21 grocery stores, 11 general stores, four dry-goods stores, five notions and millinery stores, four drugstores, four second-hand stores, three butcher shops, three bookstores, three sawmills, two bathhouses, two blacksmiths, two hardware stores, two flour mills and two meat markets.—Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2025 This shared heritage in the noble past of the blacksmiths is significant in their musical synergy.—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2021 New furnishings were commissioned by the Eve Branson Foundation from local blacksmiths in Asni, and from artisans in Marrakech.—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025 By 1885 the new settlement’s population soared to more than 2,000, and hotels, restaurants, blacksmiths, saloons, shops and more lined both sides of Main Street, Second and Third Avenues.—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blacksmith
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Etymology
Middle English blaksmyth, from blakblack entry 1 + smythsmith; from a distinction between black metal (iron) and white metal (tin)
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