What is "seamster"

Usage examples of "seamster".

Any seamster or cobbler or tailor or artificer of any trade keeps us shut up in prison for the luxurious and wanton pleasures of the clergy.

If they were seamster and leatherer prentices, that accounted for the uniforms.

My mother was a seamstress and had three younger seamsters under her, that she taught to sew.

She worked all of her waking hours, and her old fingers moved as nimbly as those of seamsters half her age.

Pools of darkness and light with brown-andyellow-suited Seamsters illuminated one minute, thrown into silhouette the next, then just as suddenly swallowed up by the darkness.

The Seamsters in his unit might not share his vaulting ambition or sense of destiny, but most of them were OK guys with a firm grasp of the realities of their situation and more modest, achievable goals.

They all had craftsmen’s alleys where the weavers and quilt makers and candle makers and seamsters lived.

Marjorie and Stella, gowned as extravagantly as any of the bons—the dresses had been stitched by a whole family of Commons’ seamsters nominated by Roald Few—waited at the top of the stairs that the bons would have to ascend, Marjorie on Rigo’s arm, Stella on Tony’s.

And there were the Seamsters sweating away down in the A-Levels to keep everything going.