seamstress
- a woman whose occupation is sewing.
Origin of seamstress
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Contemporary Examples of seamstress
Mavis Lilian Lever was born in Dulwich, south London, on May 5, 1921, the daughter of a postal worker and a seamstress.
Danny, the only child of Su Zhen, a seamstress, and Yan Tao, a chef, lived in public housing on the Lower East Side.
Her mother was a seamstress and her father drove a delivery truck for Coca-Cola.
The “team of stylists” around her in Minneapolis that Palin describes consisted of Kline, her assistant, and a seamstress.
Historical Examples of seamstress
That's the seamstress who was mentioned to me by a small tenant of mine?
Little DorritCharles Dickens
The supposed Evremonde descends, and the seamstress is lifted out next after him.
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
She did not yet know whether she was present as a seamstress or as a guest.
In Apple-Blossom TimeClara Louise Burnham
Lucy Watson, the girl whom you met in the hall just now—is my seamstress.
Evenings at Donaldson ManorMaria J. McIntosh
She was a seamstress and a widow with one little daughter, Nettie.
Sunshine FactoryPansy
seamstress
rarely sempstress (ˈsɛmpstrɪs)
- a woman who sews and makes clothes, esp professionally