How To Use needlewoman In A Sentence
- My mother was an excellent needlewoman and, ever since I was little, I had been brought up with it.
- The needlewoman's workbasket holds further associations with home, hearth, mothering and goodly housewifery.
- She is an accomplished horsewoman and needlewoman. Times, Sunday Times
- Aunt Polly embroidered quite as well as any professional needlewoman; her English thread lace was transferred from one dress to another and her India muslins must have been exquisite, so she appreciated a proper blanchisseuse. My beloved South,
- Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper). Try Anything Twice
- She was a needlewoman, aged twenty-two, in the sixth month of her first pregnancy.
- Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper). Try Anything Twice
- Daughters of affluent parents had the option of taking advanced instruction from an expert needlewoman capable of teaching many of the diverse branches of needlework.
- The anonymous donor, a needlewoman herself, hired it out to film studios in the 1940s.
- The footman accuses the cook, she accuses the needlewoman, and the latter accuses the other two.