seamster

[ seem-steror, especially British, sem- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

before 1000; Middle English semster ( e ), Old English sǣmestre, sēamystre, feminine derivative of sēamere tailor; seam, -ster

A seamster cut out for them two long black robes with hoods attached, like monks' habits.

My wife is a seamster, my auntie a cook I do janitor work or comon labor.

One sees in it a natural outcome of his prentice life in London, as a shoemaker, a seamster, or what not.

My "seamster," Maria, has a little girl who she sent me word should be my little chambermaid, and she wished me to name her.

Not as clerk or seamster as in former days, but as half owner and proprietor.

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