wardrobe mistress
a woman in charge of keeping theatrical costumes cleaned, pressed, and in wearable condition.
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How to use wardrobe mistress in a sentence
Some of the fancy things could be executed by a competent wardrobe mistress, if some one would give her the ideas.
The Real Adventure | Henry Kitchell WebsterThere was also a matter of twenty dollars or so still to be paid to the wardrobe mistress and her assistant.
The Real Adventure | Henry Kitchell WebsterThe stage costumes hung in neat ranks outside under the eye of the wardrobe mistress.
The Real Adventure | Henry Kitchell WebsterThe wardrobe mistress hurries from one to another, needle and thread in hand.
My Actor-Husband | AnonymousIn a less sloppily organized company I'd be called wardrobe mistress, I guess.
No Great Magic | Fritz Reuter Leiber
British Dictionary definitions for wardrobe mistress
a person responsible for maintaining and sometimes making the costumes in a theatre
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