seamstress
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Husbands hired Lange and trained her as a seamstress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
The son of a seamstress and a mechanic, Wirun was a straight-A student who studied at one of Thailand's top medical schools.
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
Tired of wearing the clothes that his seamstress mother made for him, Strachan raised money for shopping by working on a fishing boat, spending weeks at a time at sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Her relatives said she separated from her husband around her son's birth and supports her family as a seamstress while living with her maternal relatives.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
“But would the seamstress be allowed to love the prince?”
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
Sorcinelli, aided by 11 seamstresses, displayed the green silk forming the basis of Leo's vestment for Rimini, rolling out the sumptuous fabric onto a long table.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Time and again, the 11th-Century seamstresses who created it - who are believed to have been in England, probably Canterbury - were so skilled that the story they are telling looks like it's in 3D.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, he spent his teenage years in the U.S., growing up in a community of seamstresses and store owners who always found reasons to do more rather than less.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
The Italian government brokered a sale of the Bologna-based company to an American couple, and the roughly 100 seamstresses were reinstated to their jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
The women sought work as typewriters, stenographers, seamstresses, and weavers.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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