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Sempstress

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A seamstress, a woman employed to sew.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A seamstress.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See seamstress.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone who makes or mends dresses

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

garment worker garment-worker garmentmaker

Hyponym

betsy ross Ross betsy griscom ross

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

seamstress

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

dressmaker ownerless road agent shirker spelunker