Plain sewing

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sewing of seams by simple and common stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.; - distinguished also from designing and fitting garments.

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No references found			cried Belle, whose conscience suddenly woke, and smote her for beating down the woman who did her plain sewing, in order that she might have an extra flounce on a new dress. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May View in context For example, she not only determined to work at plain sewing, that she might contribute something toward the fund in the tin box, but she went, in the first instance, in her zeal of self-mortification, to ask for it at a linen shop in St. The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context			plague-ridden Plagueful Plagueless Plaguer plaguey Plaguily plaguy plaice Plaice mouth plaid Plaid Cymru plaided Plaiding plain Plain battle Plain chant Plain chart plain chocolate plain clothes Plain dealer Plain dealing plain flour Plain molding Plain People plain sailing Plain sewing Plain song plain speaking plain stitch plain text plain turkey plain vanilla plain wanderer plain weave plain-clothes Plain-dealing Plain-hearted plain-Jane plain-laid plain-spoken plain-woven Plainant plainchant plainclothes plainclothesman Plainfield Plaining plainly plainness plains Plains Indian			Plain Old Orbix Protocol Plain Old Provisioning System Plain Old Semantic HTML Plain Old Telephone Plain Old Telephone Line Plain Old Telephone Network Plain old telephone service Plain old telephone service Plain old telephone service Plain Old Telephone Service and Pretty Amazing New Stuff Plain Old Telephone System Plain Old Telephone System Plain Old Television Plain Old Time Sharing Plain Old VoIP Service Plain Old XML Plain Paper Copier Plain Paper Optimized Printing Plain People plain quarters plain quarters plain quarters plain quarters Plain Queueing Flow Control plain rail plain reinforcement Plain rice pudding plain sailing plain sailing plain sense Plain sewing plain slicing plain slicing plain slicing plain slicing Plain Small End Plain song Plain song Plain songs Plain songs Plain speaking Plain speaking plain speech plain stitch Plain Test plain TeX plain text plain text plain text Plain Text Alternative Plain Text Clear to Send Plain Text Data Mode Plain Text Local Loopback Plain Text Markup Language Plain Text Monitor Plain Text Receiver Ready Plain Text Remote Loopback Plain Text Request to Send Plain Text Terminal Ready Plain Text Terminal Timing Plain Text Test Mode

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