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sempstress

NOUN
  1. someone who makes or mends dresses

How To Use sempstress In A Sentence

  • She is the most respectable servant I have met with in Italy; and, were you not provided, I would recommend her to you, — she is a good sempstress, and an excellent nurse. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
  • To this encaged sempstress no one ever speaks unless it be to give a rare order for a mutton chop or pint of stout. The Three Clerks
  • In Pritchard, the Conservatives have surely found their very own Rosa Parks, not a meek sempstress, admittedly, but the next best thing: in his words, "a council lad from a very poor background". Animals in circuses: If you're going to rebel, find a better cause | Catherine Bennett
  • This person, it developed, was the village sempstress, recruited to repair the deficiencies of my wardrobe by adjusting the fit of a dress, obtained on short notice from some local connection of the innkeeper's. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • A pile of shaped pieces of linen told me that she was a sempstress. Gobseck
  • St. Peter raised from the dead Dorcas, a sempstress, who made clothes for the “brethren.” A Philosophical Dictionary
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  • We see him raise his sempstress Dorcas, at the house of the tanner Simon at Joppa. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Nan was a sempstress and did not I think have any connection to commercial baking Sedgemoor Easter Cakes, Somerset
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