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needleworker

NOUN
seamstress
Synonyms
STRONG
tailor tailoress
WEAK


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When she’s not volunteering, Merrill is an avid needleworker and enjoys difficult crossword and jigsaw puzzles.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 1, 2016

The royal needleworker will turn the money over to the national exchequer as her contribution to Britain's dollar drive.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pin poppet, as its name denotes, was, however, intended originally for the requirements of the early needleworker who at the dames' school won renown in those great achievements—the samplers of old.

From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess

In appliqué the craft to the needleworker is not carried to its limit, but, on the other hand, it calls for great skill in design.

From Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them by Marie D. (Marie Daugherty) Webster

Hours are frightfully long, the disabilities of the French needleworker being in many points the same as those of her English sister.

From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Helen Campbell


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