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Sempstress

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Semp´stress
n.1.A seamstress.
Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts.
- Swift.
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Noun1.Sempstresssempstress - someone who makes or mends dresses
dressmaker, needlewoman, seamstress, modiste
garment worker, garment-worker, garmentmaker - a person who makes garments
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It appeared that Yegor had a family, three boys and a daughter, a sempstress, whom he wanted to marry to a cashier in a saddler's shop.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Each of them threaded her needle with a short end of thread attached to the work, which was instantly pulled by an invisible force through the stuff, dragging the needle after it: the nimble fingers of the little sempstress caught it at the other side, but only to lose it again the next moment.
Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context
And to divert her from thinking too highly of him he told her to go upstairs, and take her time, and see if it all fitted; and, if not, to get the village sempstress to make a few alterations.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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