"froster" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1941, Oswald Fenton Hedley, Heart Disease in Philadelphia Cardiac Clinics, page 17",
          "text": "A froster and a cake sealer had repeated attacks of dermatitis on returning to their work, although the cause could not be ascertained.",
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          "ref": "2016, Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes, Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism, page 88",
          "text": "Julie was a froster, the glamour job at the factory. She wore her cute white hat cocked at a jaunty angle while working a big white bag of frosting, twisting it rapidly in her hands to create the various designs on top of the gâteaux.",
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        "One who applies frosting."
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          "text": "To standardize his rapid-freeze process, Birdseye devised an iron container with steel plates. Within them he placed packages of fresh fish in a low-temperature brine refrigerant. Knowing that the public would be wary, Birdseye named the contraption a froster rather than a freezer.",
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          "text": "Julie was a froster, the glamour job at the factory. She wore her cute white hat cocked at a jaunty angle while working a big white bag of frosting, twisting it rapidly in her hands to create the various designs on top of the gâteaux.",
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        "One who applies frosting."
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