A person who makes eyelets or works with eyelets in manufacturing or shoemaking.
From 'eyelet' + '-eer' (from French -ier meaning 'one who does'). Agent noun created in the 19th century as mass production of shoes began.
Eyeleteers were skilled workers in shoe factories who used specialized machines to cut, fold, and set thousands of eyelets per day—a good eyeleteer could judge hole size by sight alone, which is why the job required serious training.
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