sempstress
Americannoun
noun
Gender
See -ess.
Example Sentences
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Better a thousand times to be a governess, or a sempstress, or any honest occupation by which she could earn her own bread.
From Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
"There are the waiter and coachman, you know; and the chambermaid; and Mrs. Laval's own maid, and the sempstress."
From The House in Town by Susan Warner
The humble petition of Penelope Prim, widow; "Sheweth, "That your petitioner was bred a clear-starcher and sempstress, and for many years worked to the Exchange; and to several aldermen's wives, lawyers' clerks, and merchants' apprentices.
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
She went to the sempstress To buy him some linen, And when she came back The dog was spinning.
From Traditional Nursery Songs of England With Pictures by Eminent Modern Artists by Sir Henry Cole
"And yet, if she is not the sempstress, she must be Anita!"
From Who? by Elizabeth Kent
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