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Handschuh

Updated: January 17, 2024
Updated: January 17, 2024

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of gloves, or perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore gloves, from Middle High German hantschuoch ‘glove’, literally ‘hand shoe’.

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