sempstress
Americannoun
noun
Gender
See -ess.
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The robust kitchen maid, the trim modiste, and the humble sempstress, all swelled the phalanx of warriors.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
The sempstress, however, made her spell out the words until she quite understood them.
From The Grandee by Armando Palacio Valdés
Miss Pinky Davis, our country sempstress, was sent for, and again Cousin Sue spent hours planning how best to cut up and trim the bolts of nainsook she had ordered from Richmond.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
Among them were sometimes introduced a few young girls, such as La Cadière, a tradesman’s daughter and herself a sempstress, La Laugier, and La Batarelle, the daughter of a waterman.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
You never can tell with girls how soon such things may be wanted, and then I should have no occasion to apply either to the weaver, or the sempstress.
From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. II. by Berthold Auerbach
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