sempstress

[ semp-stris, sem-stris ]

noun

1. seamstress.

sempstress

/ ˈsɛmpstrɪs /

noun

1. a rare word for seamstress

Gender Note

See -ess.

Example Sentences

I wished to earn my living as a sempstress, a trade in which my mother instructed me during my stay with her.

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I took up again my sempstress's apprenticeship, and soon ceased to be a care to my mother.

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My sister Victoria shares my dwelling and lives on the proceeds of her sempstress's trade.

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The robust kitchen maid, the trim modiste, and the humble sempstress, all swelled the phalanx of warriors.

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We see him raise his sempstress Dorcas, at the house of the tanner Simon at Joppa.

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