Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
seamstress .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A seamstress.
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- noun A
seamstress , a woman employed tosew .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes or mends dresses
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Pritchard, the Conservatives have surely found their very own Rosa Parks, not a meek sempstress, admittedly, but the next best thing: in his words, "a council lad from a very poor background".
Animals in circuses: If you're going to rebel, find a better cause | Catherine Bennett 2011
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In Pritchard, the Conservatives have surely found their very own Rosa Parks, not a meek sempstress, admittedly, but the next best thing: in his words, "a council lad from a very poor background".
Animals in circuses: If you're going to rebel, find a better cause | Catherine Bennett 2011
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This person, it developed, was the village sempstress, recruited to repair the deficiencies of my wardrobe by adjusting the fit of a dress, obtained on short notice from some local connection of the innkeeper's.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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She is the most respectable servant I have met with in Italy; and, were you not provided, I would recommend her to you, — she is a good sempstress, and an excellent nurse.
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A pile of shaped pieces of linen told me that she was a sempstress.
Gobseck 2007
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We see him raise his sempstress Dorcas, at the house of the tanner Simon at Joppa.
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St. Peter raised from the dead Dorcas, a sempstress, who made clothes for the “brethren.”
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A pile of shaped pieces of linen told me that she was a sempstress.
Gobseck 2007
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Nan was a sempstress and did not I think have any connection to commercial baking
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To this encaged sempstress no one ever speaks unless it be to give a rare order for a mutton chop or pint of stout.
The Three Clerks 2004
yarb commented on the word sempstress
...he discarded a little sempstress of whom he was very fond...
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 12
October 10, 2008