seamster

[seem-ster or, esp. British, sem-]

noun

a person whose occupation is sewing; tailor.

Origin of seamster

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

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Historical Examples of seamster

One sees in it a natural outcome of his prentice life in London, as a shoemaker, a seamster, or what not.
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.
Thomas Dekker
Not as clerk or seamster as in former days, but as half owner and proprietor.
Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale
Ida Glenwood
My "seamster," Maria, has a little girl who she sent me word should be my little chambermaid, and she wished me to name her.
Letters from Port Royal
Various
A seamster cut out for them two long black robes with hoods attached, like monks' habits.
Bouvard and Pcuchet
Gustave Flaubert
My wife is a seamster, my auntie a cook I do janitor work or comon labor.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919
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