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View synonyms for seamstress

seamstress

[ seem-strisor, especially British, sem- ]

noun

  1. a woman whose occupation is sewing.


seamstress

/ ˈsɛmpstrɪs; ˈsɛmstrɪs /

noun

  1. a woman who sews and makes clothes, esp professionally


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Gender Note

See -ess.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of seamstress1

First recorded in 1605–15; seamst(e)r + -ess

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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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