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Examples
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"I'm never going to beat that if I dressmake till I'm a hundred."
Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith
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I'll ask the parish priest and the nuns to tell the women you can dressmake.
Love of Brothers Katharine Tynan 1896
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I dressmake for her, you see, so I know -- about her sleeves and skirts, you know.
Oh, Money! Money! 1894
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She might dressmake or do millinery work; she always had a pretty taste, and 't would be better than roving.
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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"I dressmake, and I don't get any sort of meals -- not fit for a man, I mean.
Oh, Money! Money! 1894
mollusque commented on the word dressmake
She might dressmake or do millinery work; she always had a pretty taste, and 't would be better than roving. I 'spose 'twould hurt her pride," --but Mrs. Thacher flushed at this, and Mrs. Martin came to the rescue.
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1884, A Country Doctor
January 28, 2010