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seamstress [ˈsɛmstrɪs] rarely, sempstress [ˈsɛmpstrɪs] n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Knitting & Sewing) a woman who sews and makes clothes, esp professionally ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Martha had earned her bread sometimes as a seamstress, sometimes as help to a farmer's wife, sometimes as school-mistress of the village children, sometimes as a nurse or watcher of the sick, thus acquiring a varied experience, the ultimate use of which she little anticipated. From the farmer-general of seventy, whose riches could not buy his life, to the seamstress of twenty, whose poverty and obscurity could not save her. The citizen made a fresh pause and continued, "I have a wife who is seamstress to the queen, monsieur, and who is not deficient in either virtue or beauty. |
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