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Equally interesting: blacksmiths, Native American potters and adobe-house builders, fletchers and coopers (that's arrow- and barrel-makers), glaziers making glass from sand, cooks trying a mac and cheese recipe written in 1784.—Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 25 June 2019
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Etymology
Middle English fleccher, from Anglo-French flecher, from fleche arrow — more at flèche
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