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Singer's employer?
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seamstress
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, with -ess + seamster (also sempster ), from Old English seamestre "sewer, tailor, person whose work is sewing," from seam . Originally indicating a woman, but after a while the fem. ending -estre no longer was felt as such and a new one added.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Before Dad started courting her, she worked as a seamstress . ▪ He has three seamstresses on tour with him to run up new outfits. ▪ One farmer's wife had a 52-week job as a seamstress , with an average of 24 hours per week. ▪ ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A woman who sews clothes professionally.
Usage examples of seamstress.
Signor Mantissa himself had been through them all, each booth was a permanent exhibit in memory of some time in his life when there had been a blond seamstress in Lyons, or an abortive plot to smuggle tobacco over the Pyrenees, or a minor assassination attempt in Belgrade.
A week ago he would have fled from the very thought of a modiste and her coterie of seamstresses, or fittings.
When the modiste had reminded him hysterically that the Season was about to begin and her seamstresses were all working night and day, Stephen had politely asked her to do the best she could.
Madam Prinkle, a seamstress renowned throughout the lands, would no doubt make her a most beautiful gown with gems and rich, colorful fabrics, but she doubted she would be wearing the glowing face to go with it.
My mother was a seamstress and had three younger seamsters under her, that she taught to sew.
Mistress Squiller assured the princess she was by far the best seamstress in Wall, and proceeded to prove it by whipping together gowns and accessories at an amazing speed, talking all the while.
Hard on their heels came Mesdames Celeste and Elizabeth, accompanied by a bevy of seamstresses bearing armsful of muslins, crapes, taffetas, organdies, hand-painted Chinese silks, and Indian silks.
Later, after two trade union officials had arrived at the Bethnal Green factory, Misses Mavis Percy, the chargehand of the first-floor workshop of machinists and seamstresses, came to see Tommy.
Within moments the couturiere sailed in and introduced herself while her assistants and seamstresses began setting up for the full display of gowns and fabrics in every shade of the rainbow.
The inmates of boarding-schools, factory girls, seamstresses, milliners, employes in manufacturing establishments, and all who sit and toil almost unremittingly twelve hours in the day, do not get sufficient exercise of all the muscles of the body, and are often troubled with obstinate constipation.
Result, the boarding-house of the later half of the century, nominally a family home, actually a hotbed of faultfinding and gossip, most wearing to the teacher and fledgling professional woman, however acceptable to the milliner and seamstress.
He had probably seduced a few seamstresses and shopgirls who were overawed by him and let him take 182 Ken Follett charge.
The dressmakers were hard at work, the mother cutting and the daughter sewing, but, as progress could not be too rapid, I told the mother that she would oblige us if she could procure another seamstress who spoke French.
The chief officers of this treasury are masters of the ceremonies, roysters, heralds, bards, orators, flatterers, dancers, tailors, gamblers, seamstresses and the like.
Carla, one of the house servants here, is also an excellent seamstress and has been altering one of my gowns for you.