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seamstress
[ seem-strisor, especially British, sem- ]
noun
- a woman whose occupation is sewing.
seamstress
/ ˈsɛmpstrɪs; ˈsɛmstrɪs /
noun
- a woman who sews and makes clothes, esp professionally
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Word History and Origins
Origin of seamstress1
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Example Sentences
Mavis Lilian Lever was born in Dulwich, south London, on May 5, 1921, the daughter of a postal worker and a seamstress.
Los Angeles–based seamstress Erin Pearce makes photographic print dresses of various ‘Seinfeld’ characters.
Keckley eventually bought her own freedom, becoming a successful seamstress and a confidante to the first lady.
Danny, the only child of Su Zhen, a seamstress, and Yan Tao, a chef, lived in public housing on the Lower East Side.
Her mother was a seamstress and her father drove a delivery truck for Coca-Cola.
Mrs. McAllister, finding out in some way that Violet was a clever seamstress, sent home fine linen handkerchiefs for her to hem.
Toward the last it was found necessary to employ an assistant, a seamstress, known of old to Mata.
On the doorstep stood the little seamstress ready to cast a handful of dried peas.
Lucy Watson, the girl whom you met in the hall just now—is my seamstress.
A girl should be at least eighteen or twenty before she becomes a day seamstress.
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