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sempstress

[ semp-stris, sem-stris ]

sempstress

/ ˈɛٰɪ /

noun

  1. a rare word for seamstress
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Gender Note

See -ess.
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He made the best baskets in the world, and his wife was an excellent sempstress.

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The busy sempstresses plied their needles with double speed; and various were the flounces and furbelows, pinkings and quiltings, they invented.

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This was the case with the sempstresses of London; and the famous 'Song of the Shirt' struck a note to which there was a responding chord in every bosom.

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If there was a king who could not help being a locksmith, I know of a countess who could not help being a sempstress.

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They are excellent sempstresses and good at embroidery.

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