seamstress
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Grant, who has been a seamstress for 15 years, said she was sworn to secrecy after the first phone call which was difficult as she was "not good at keeping secrets".
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Husbands hired Lange and trained her as a seamstress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Originally from a poor and mountainous district of Bamiyan, Rahesh worked for five years in construction in Iran, where his wife Marzia was a seamstress.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
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
Having made good her escape on the Nancy, Ona arrived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and soon found work as a seamstress.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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