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seamstress

noun as in sewer

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Mavis Lilian Lever was born in Dulwich, south London, on May 5, 1921, the daughter of a postal worker and a seamstress.

Los Angeles–based seamstress Erin Pearce makes photographic print dresses of various ‘Seinfeld’ characters.

Keckley eventually bought her own freedom, becoming a successful seamstress and a confidante to the first lady.

Danny, the only child of Su Zhen, a seamstress, and Yan Tao, a chef, lived in public housing on the Lower East Side.

Her mother was a seamstress and her father drove a delivery truck for Coca-Cola.

Mrs. McAllister, finding out in some way that Violet was a clever seamstress, sent home fine linen handkerchiefs for her to hem.

Toward the last it was found necessary to employ an assistant, a seamstress, known of old to Mata.

On the doorstep stood the little seamstress ready to cast a handful of dried peas.

Lucy Watson, the girl whom you met in the hall just now—is my seamstress.

A girl should be at least eighteen or twenty before she becomes a day seamstress.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to seamstress, such as: tailor, null, clothier, dressmaker, and needleworker.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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