A person who cuts cloth or prepares fabric, particularly one who works with fents or manages textile remnants.
From fent (cloth remnant) plus -er (one who does). This occupational term emerged in medieval textile industries when fabric waste management became specialized work.
Before factories and quality control, managing cloth scraps was an actual career—a 'fenter' was a skilled worker in the textile trade. Some historians believe certain medieval cloth merchants became wealthy primarily by expertly recycling fents into profitable products, showing that waste management is nothing new!
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