seamstress
a woman whose occupation is sewing.
Origin of seamstress
1- Also sempstress.
usage note For seamstress
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How to use seamstress in a sentence
The company reacted on Monday, vowing to ensure better conditions for their Cambodian seamstresses.
H&M's Minimum Wage Fiasco in Cambodia: Report | Misty White Sidell | October 29, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSeveral websites list seamstresses who perform these coat-to-bear conversions professionally.
He was alone, without any members of the extensive team of assistants and seamstresses who keep the house chugging along.
Paris Fall 2012 Fashion Week: Are Designers Bashing Women? | Robin Givhan | March 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSome of those polygamous seamstresses may have grown up with Heber Holm.
Very soon, there were more seamstresses than customers; but God did not fail to open a way.
The College, the Market, and the Court | Caroline H. Dall
Hadley pays three-fourths; to domestics, one-third; seamstresses, one-quarter to one-third.
The College, the Market, and the Court | Caroline H. DallSeamstresses, chambermaids, or milliners, never tempted me; I sighed for ladies!
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques RousseauMaking mourning by lamp-light is hard work, as all poor seamstresses know.
The Doctor's Family | Mrs. (Margaret) OliphantPerhaps many seamstresses would not recognize the duty of blessing the man who invented the needle.
American Inventions and Inventors | William A. Mowry
British Dictionary definitions for seamstress
rarely sempstress (ˈsɛmpstrɪs)
/ (ˈsɛmstrɪs) /
a woman who sews and makes clothes, esp professionally
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