seamstress

[seem-stris, sem-]

noun

1. a woman whose occupation is sewing.

seamstress

/ ˈsɛmpstrɪs, ˈsɛmstrɪs /

noun

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

Gender Note

See -ess.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seamstress¹

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

Example Sentences

After his seamstress mom relaxed his hair, and while wearing a hat, he could pass for white; he’d be sent into town to shop.

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Tired of wearing the clothes that his seamstress mother made for him, Strachan raised money for shopping by working on a fishing boat, spending weeks at a time at sea.

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Her relatives said she separated from her husband around her son's birth and supports her family as a seamstress while living with her maternal relatives.

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The only person to show up on the departure date, however, is Ada, 22, a seamstress and house cleaner who is terrified of polar bears.

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Ms Kaur, who lived in Hercules in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked for two decades as a sari-store seamstress and paid her taxes.

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