sempster

WASSEL, like a neat sempster and songster; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with ribands, and rosemary, before her.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Thence comes the possibility that a Spanish prince should have degraded himself in the eyes of Europe as a sempster and embroiderer of petticoats.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

Simister, sempster, Webster, etc., but in process of time the distinction was lost, so that we find Blaxter and Whitster for

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

WASSEL, _like a neat sempster and songster; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with ribands, and rosemary before her.

In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) 1902

He supposed that Walton had then given up his business as a linen draper and sempster, and was only an authour [1089]; and added, 'that he was a great panegyrist.'

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

“A _tyre-woman_ of phantastical ornaments, a _sempster_ for ruffes, cuffes, smocks and waistcoats”.

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

We hear of him first as settled in London, following the trade of a sempster, or linen-draper, having a shop in the Royal Burse, in

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

We hear of him first as settled in London, following the trade of a sempster, or linen-draper, having a shop in the Royal Burse, in

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2 George Gilfillan 1845

He supposed that Walton had then given up his business as a linen draper and sempster, and was only an authour [1089]; and added, 'that he was a great panegyrist.'

Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767

Italian cutwork standeth him not at the least in three or four pounds; yea, a sempster in Holborn told me there are of threescore pound price apiece. "

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866