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Sempster

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Semp´ster
n.1.A seamster.


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Second Luce, Wise-woman's assistant who has disguised herself as Jack, induced Wise-woman in act 1 to help her teach Young Chartley a lesson and make him return to her, his first wife, rather than his second wife, sempster Luce.
For sempster, the OED gives "a needlewoman" and "a woman who sews" for definitions.
Planning to re-publish it as a book, the author found that it fell some 20,000 words short of the necessary length; so, like a good sempster, she set to make up the deficit with tackings-on and embroideries of incident and description.
 
 
 
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